By Miriam Krule When it comes to Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish women, we tend to hear mostly about the terrible things that happen to them—from having to sit in the back of public buses to being banned from hosting or even… Read More ›
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Guantánamo Diary exposes brutality of US rendition and torture
The groundbreaking memoir of a current Guantánamo inmate that lays bare the harrowing details of the US rendition and torture programme from the perspective of one of its victims is to be published next week after a six-year battle for… Read More ›
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Great Wall’ to keep out Isil
By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent When a raiding party from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked a Saudi border post last week, it was no mere hit on a desert outpost. The jihadists were launching an assault… Read More ›
Why did the world ignore Boko Haram’s Baga attacks?
As media coverage focused on the Paris terror attacks last week, more than 2000 Nigerians were reported to have been killed by Islamist militants. What makes one massacre more newsworthy than another? France spent the weekend coming to terms with… Read More ›
Allegiance to ISIL splits Russian fighters
In the past two months three ‘Caucasus Emirate’ warlords appeared in videos declaring fealty to ISIL. Moscow, Russia – In a lengthy diatribe posted on YouTube in late December, a full-bearded man in a loose white robe recites Quranic quotes… Read More ›
Syria Photo Guide – Syria Comment
By Daniel Demeter Syria Photo Guide is my attempt to share with the world the immense beauty and rich heritage of the country in which I spent several wonderful years. The website was originally envisioned to serve as a guide… Read More ›
NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
My love of the Universe that Hubble and huge earth telescopes have obtained for us is or should be well known. God is indeed busy, in the Universe. 🙂 “Pillars of Creation” is a photograph taken by the Hubble Telescope… Read More ›
Tomb Of Egyptian Queen Khentakawess III Discovered In Abusir
BBC News-Queen Khentakawess III’s tomb found in Egypt A long-forgotten queen of Egypt has been rediscovered by Czech archaeologists, who unearthed her 4,500-year-old tomb at the Abusir necropolis just outside of Cairo. Inscriptions on the tomb indicate her name was… Read More ›
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