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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.
March 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Attack may derail effort to force Taliban into talks
The outrage from the back-to-back episodes of the Koran burning and the killing on Sunday of at least 16 Afghan civilians imperils what the Obama administration once saw as an orderly plan for 2012: to speed the training of Afghan forces so that they can take the lead in combat missions, all while drawing the Taliban into negotiations to end more than a decade of constant war.
March 10, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Al-Qaeda makes ‘alarming’ advances in Yemen, U.N. envoy warns
A reinvigorated al-Qaeda has made “alarming” advances in Yemen, expanding its military control over several southern towns and launching a series of brazen attacks that threaten the U.S.-backed political transition there, a senior U.N. envoy warned the Security Council in a confidential briefing last week.
March 09, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Culture war brews between new Islamist movement and secularists in post-revolution Tunisia
Every Friday, bearded men in shin-length robes demonstrate in Tunisia’s capital against perceived insults to Islam in a country once known for its aggressive secularism.
March 08, 2012 - The Independent
Independent: Back to the bad old days: Karzai beats retreat on women's rights
President Hamid Karzai has backed guidelines issued by Afghanistan's religious council that relegate women to the position of second-class citizens, raising questions about whether British soldiers should continue to put their lives at risk for a government that seems prepared to sell out on the issue in order to engage the Taliban in a peace deal.
March 07, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Opinion: Israel stacks the legal deck
Palestinian baker and activist Khader Adnan captured headlines recently for a 66-day hunger strike that led him to the brink of death.
March 07, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Arab spring fails to allay women's anxieties
Like many Tunisians, Maroua Ben Salah, 23, never imagined that her life and her country would change so drastically in a matter of days.
March 06, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Turkey is seeking to reassure its non-Muslim citizens
After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities.
March 06, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Norway’s indigenous Sami people turn to Israel for help in reviving old tribal language
Norway’s Sami people, an indigenous community with roots as reindeer herders in the northern reaches of Scandinavia and Russia, are looking south to Israel for help preserving their fading native language.
March 06, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Syrian Christians worry about life after Bashar Assad
For 40 years, Um Michael has found comfort and serenity amid the soaring pillars and ancient icons of St. Mary's Greek Orthodox cathedral.
March 05, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Ethiopians trade holy water for AIDS drugs
Cast out from her family, Tigist arrived at Ethiopia's Entoto Mountain believing that a spring here welled with holy water that would rid her body of HIV.
March 04, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Anger and compassion for Arab justice who stays silent during zionist hymn
It was supposed to be a passing of the torch, yet another solemn state ceremony at the president’s residence in Jerusalem.
March 04, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: For Egypt’s women, equality will take a second revolution
A year ago, on International Women’s Day, a few hundred Egyptian women paraded through Cairo’s Tahrir Square only to be booed, spat on and jostled by several dozen men.
March 03, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: At al-Azhar mosque, struggle over Islam roils a revered Egyptian institution
They came by the thousands, pouring through the ancient stone archways and into the gleaming white marble courtyard of al-Azhar mosque.
March 01, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Insight: "Rock star" scholars a risk for Islamic finance
Decades of parsing turgid legal documents have not dampened the enthusiasm of octogenarian Islamic scholar Sheikh Hussein Hamed Hassan.
February 29, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Dubai bank cuts off business with Iranian lenders
A Dubai Islamic bank with ties to the emirate's ruling family said Wednesday it stopped doing business with Iranian banks in December, shortly before the United States approved new sanctions targeting the country's financial system.
February 29, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Young Israelis on mission to improve their country's image
A GROUP of eight young Israeli people have come to Ireland to tell their stories in a bid to improve their country’s image.
February 29, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Under Israel’s ‘enlightened’ occupation, apartheid has a face
Last month, in the early evening, as I drove on Jerusalem’s Route 1 in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, I was attacked by several Israeli boys.
February 28, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: Somalia's so-called peace does not spare its children's suffering
IN A basic military clinic filled with wounded children, the sour smell of infection hung heavily in the still air.
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