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April 21, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In uprooting of Kurds, Iraq tests a fragile national unity
In January, the dismembered body of Wisam Jumai, a Kurdish intelligence officer, was discovered in a field in Sadiyah, a small town in northeastern Iraq.
April 19, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Islamist rivalry colors Egypt race
The most bitter rivalry emerging in Egypt's presidential campaign pits two candidates with competing visions of Islam and a long-running personal feud.
April 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Top Egyptian Islamic cleric visits Jerusalem
A top Egyptian Islamic cleric paid a rare visit to Jerusalem Wednesday, breaking with decades of opposition by Muslim leaders on traveling to areas under Israeli control.
April 18, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Pakistani Judge upholds three women’s conversions
A controversy over religious conversions that has captivated Pakistanis was resolved in dramatic fashion on Wednesday when a judge ruled that three Hindu women who converted to Islam under disputed circumstances had chosen to go with their new Muslim husbands, causing consternation among the families they left behind.
April 14, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: 10 presidential candidates disqualified in Egypt
Egypt’s presidential election commission on Saturday disqualified the top two Islamist contenders and the country’s former spy chief, sending shock waves through the volatile political establishment ahead of next month’s vote.
April 12, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: 'Islam-lite' Kosovars determined to stay secular
THE CALL to prayer drifting from the spindly minarets of Pristina’s Ottoman era mosques struggles to be heard over the din of the city.
April 12, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: The danger that Saudi Arabia will turn Syria into an Islamist hotbed
Even as a tentative ceasefire brings an uneasy calm to Syria, opposition leaders and US officials express skepticism that it will hold, particularly in the face of the Assad regime’s record of broken promises.
April 11, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: The ‘Sinai Spring’ hasn’t altered Bedouin culture
Sinai is beautiful, blessed by wonderful beaches, high-reaching mountains, a desert that changes color with the moving sun, and natural resources aplenty.
April 11, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Coptic Christians fight for place in Egypt's political scene
Father Alfons Marzou shuffles across a complex that is home to sisters for the Catholic Missionaries of Charity, whose nuns provide medical care and food to impoverished children living amid heaps of garbage.
April 09, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: New wave of well-off Pakistani women drawn to conservative Islam
All the women working in the information technology division of the Bank of Punjab's headquarters in the western Pakistani city of Lahore wear headscarves tightly wound around their cheeks and chin, framing their faces as they tap at their keyboards.
April 08, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope marks Easter with call for Syria violence end
Pope Benedict XVI implored the Syrian regime Sunday to heed international demands to end the bloodshed and expressed hope that the joy of Easter will comfort Christian communities suffering because of their faith.
April 08, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: A northern Iraqi Easter
In the small church of St. Addaie the Messenger, the crucifixion and resurrection, retold in the village for the past 2,000 years, was re-enacted in elaborate Easter celebrations by a community holding fast to its ancient traditions but uneasy about its future.
April 07, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Doing well on parole
TUNISIA’S Islamist-led government boasts an unusual qualification. No fewer than ten cabinet members are former political prisoners.
April 06, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Gaza militants say they'll adhere to cease-fire
A Palestinian militant leader said Friday that his group is adhering to a cease-fire that stopped a barrage of rockets and air strikes between Israel and the Gaza Strip last month.
April 04, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Octogenarian Islamist cleric an unlikely revolutionary
At 86 years old, ghost-like, hard of hearing and dependent on eye drops to blink, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an unlikely revolutionary.
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.
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