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April 03, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Hip-hop echoes of an Arab Spring
Lebanon hasn’t had much in the way of an Arab Spring.
April 01, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In Egyptian hard-liner’s surge, new worries for the Muslim Brotherhood
Hazem Salah Abu Ismail is an old-school Islamist.
March 30, 2012 - The Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph: Christians driven out of Syrian cities
Almost the entire 50,000 strong Christian population of the Syrian city of Homs has been driven out by fighting, according to report.
March 29, 2012 - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: Opinion: The tragedy of religious freedom in Syria
Religious freedom is the common sense of our era. It is easy to be swept up in the hype.
March 29, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Atheist and pro-Israel, Maikel Nabil tests free speech in Egypt
Maikel Nabil's views are controversial in Egypt in almost every way – his open atheism, his support for gay rights, and especially his support for Israel.
March 29, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: In Pakistan, faith healers have no shortage of believers
Villagers in this small textile town thought Saeed Mehmood ul Hasan had a pipeline to God.
March 28, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Islamic lending grows as western banks take breather
As European banks have pulled back from overseas exposures to concentrate on cleansing their balance sheets and strengthening their core businesses, Middle Eastern and Asian borrowers have turned to local investors and alternative forms of financing, analysts say, with issues of Islamic bonds, or sukuk, notably on the rise.
March 28, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Afghan women are being jailed for 'moral crimes', says report
Nearly half of all women in Afghan prisons are being held for "moral crimes" such as running away from home or adultery, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
March 26, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Israel to bar UN fact-finding team from entering
Israel cut working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday and will bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or the West Bank for a planned investigation of Jewish settlements, the Foreign Ministry said.
March 26, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood faces sharp internal divisions over presidential race
With presidential elections set to begin in May, Egypt’s most powerful Islamist party is sharply divided over whether the group should field a candidate.
March 24, 2012 - The Economist
The Economist: Autumn of another patriarch
If Egyptians in general are frazzled by a year of revolution, the country’s Coptic Christian minority is doubly disturbed.
March 23, 2012 - National Post
National Post: 'Destroy all the churches'
Imagine if television evangelist Pat Robertson called for the demolition of all the mosques in America. It would be front-page news. It would be on every network and cable news program.
March 20, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Human Rights Watch alleges serious abuses by some Syrian rebel soldiers
Even as Syria’s security forces have tortured and massacred civilians and anti-government activists, armed members of the Syrian opposition have carried out “serious human rights abuses” against Syrian soldiers and some civilians, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
March 19, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Lebanon’s religious leaders to hold summit on uprisings
Lebanon’s top Muslim and Christian religious leaders will meet in a spiritual summit at the weekend to discuss fast-moving developments in the region, media reports said Sunday.
March 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Egyptians pay final respects to their Pope
Tens of thousands of Coptic Christians lined up outside a cathedral in the Egyptian capital on Sunday to pay their final respects to the spiritual leader of their ancient church, whose body was seated inside on an ornate throne.
March 17, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: No sheikh-up here
BOOSTERS of the United Arab Emirates describe its political system as a rare success story in the Arab world.
March 14, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Forced conversion of Hindus in Pakistan jolts US out of slumber
Pakistan's state-endorsed discrimination, and in some cases extermination, of its minorities has finally caught the eye of Washington lawmakers.
March 12, 2012 - The Independent
Independent: Military clears army doctor over 'virginity test' on Cairo protesters
An Egyptian army doctor, who was the only person to stand trial accused of forcing female protesters to undergo "virginity tests" after demonstrations last year, has been cleared.
March 12, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Keeper of Islamic flame rises as Egypt’s new decisive voice
For more than a dozen years, Khairat el-Shater guided his family of 10 children, his sprawling business empire and Egypt’s largest Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, all from a prison cell.
March 11, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Iraqi youth panicked by reports of killings
Panic is spreading among young people in Iraq after reports by Iraqi media and rights groups that dozens of people have been threatened or killed in the past few weeks because they are suspected of being gay or because they dress in a distinctive, gothic style known as emo.
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