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February 02, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Turkey’s ties with Hamas deepen amid questions about the influence of sponsors Iran and Syria
Ties between Turkey, NATO's biggest Muslim member, and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that says Israel should not exist, are blossoming.
January 31, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Religious trash talk goes mainstream in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
With the Israeli-Palestinian peace process suspended, religious fundamentalists on both sides of the conflict are gaining wider influence.
January 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Israeli settler seeks to beat Netanyahu in primary
A hard-line Jewish settler who wants to pay Palestinians to leave the West Bank and Gaza is running against Israel's prime minister in Tuesday's ruling party primary election.
January 30, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Christians fear losing freedoms in Arab Spring movement
From her home in a labyrinth of stonewalled alleyways, Samia Ramsis holds a key chain bearing the face of the Virgin Mary as she sits in her yellow pajamas on the morning of Orthodox Christmas.
January 30, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Tunisia faces a balancing act of democracy and religion
The insults were furious. “Infidel!” and “Apostate!” the religious protesters shouted at the two men who had come to the courthouse to show their support for a television director on trial on charges of blasphemy.
January 29, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Syria uprising: Religion overshadowing the democratic push
The sectarian fault line in Syria is growing more apparent as the conflict steadily intensifies between the Alawite-dominated regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the mainly Sunni rebel Free Syrian Army.
January 29, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Climate of intolerance in West Bank, activists say
A Palestinian atheist who was jailed and beaten last year for expressing anti-Muslim views on Facebook and in blogs says Palestinian security forces are harassing him again, despite government pledges to respect human rights.
January 29, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
C.S. Monitor: Syria uprising: Religion overshadowing the democratic push
The sectarian fault line in Syria is growing more apparent as the conflict steadily intensifies between the Alawite-dominated regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the mainly Sunni rebel Free Syrian Army.
January 27, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Women have been an essential component of the uprising in Syria
On Jan. 10, while President Bashar Assad addressed his supporters in Damascus, the Syrian authorities handed the tiny tortured body of a 4-month old baby girl to her uncle in Homs.
January 26, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Egyptians show mix of jubilation, anger to mark anniversary
Egyptians took to the streets on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year dictatorship, amid deepening concern that bitter political divisions and a troubled economy have deflated Egypt's once heady revolutionary hopes.
January 26, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Top Iraqi Shiite politician urges Sunni-backed bloc to end boycott of parliament
A top Iraqi Shiite official said Thursday that the political crisis pitting Shiite officials against his country's largest Sunni-backed bloc must end.
January 26, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Holocaust survivors mark tragedy in own way; with study, not ceremony
It’s a huge question for observant Jews: How can one still believe in a merciful God after suffering through the worst genocide in history?
January 25, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Saudi Arabia issues its first sovereign Islamic bond
Saudi Arabia issued its first government-backed Islamic bond this week, for its aviation agency, setting a benchmark for pricing of conventional and Islamic bond issues this year because of its size.
January 25, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In Bahrain, worries grow of violent Shiite-Sunni confrontation
Mohammed Ibrahim, 19, a Shiite student at the University of Bahrain, says he has gotten used to the tear gas the police use to disperse protests, which he and his friends attend every Friday.
January 24, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Tel Aviv emerges as top gay tourist destination
Tel Aviv has long been a gay paradise, one of the few places in the Middle East where gays feel free to walk hand-in-hand and kiss in public.
January 24, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Universities are the first test for Tunisian secularism
Last Nov. 28, the dean of the Department of Letters, Arts and Humanities of Manouba University refused to give in to pressure from a group of protesters using violence to demand that classes be accessible to young women wearing the niqab, or face veil.
January 22, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Israeli leader condemns top Palestinian Muslim cleric for comments about killing Jews
The Palestinians’ top Muslim cleric faced sharp Israeli criticism Sunday for a speech in which he quoted a religious text that includes passages about killing Jews in an end-of-days struggle.
January 21, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: A growing sense of bloody isolation
Every year Shia Muslims commemorate the loss of Hussein, a grandson and would-be heir to the Prophet Muhammad who was murdered in 680AD.
January 19, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: The Palestinians and the Arab Spring
A year has passed since the Arab Spring began to change our region, showing the determination of Arab men and women, especially youth.
January 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Israeli strike kills 2 in Gaza
Israeli forces on Wednesday attacked a group of suspected Palestinian militants believed to have been planting a bomb along Gaza's border with the Jewish state, the Israeli military said.
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