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The American University in Dubai Grants US$26million in Scholarships to Media and Journalism Students at its Mohammed Bin Rashid School for Communication
Commitment Made as Part of Clinton Global Initiative NEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The American University in Dubai AUD announced at the Clinton Global Initiative CGI Annual Meeting that it has made a commitment to offer US$26million in scholarship funds to outstanding students in financial need all...
Tags: American University, Arab, Dubai, FINANCE, Ministry
Research articles 2008-10-06
AMERICA'S EARLY EXPERIENCE WITH THE MUSLIM FAITH: THE NATION OF ISLAM
It should come as no surprise that Islam informed various transformations of African-American movements before the rise of the Nation of Islam NOI. Although it had quickly become the exclusive representative of African-American Islam, the NOI was the product of a decades-long chain of events. Islam played an enormous inspirational...
Tags: America, Arab, FBI, Government, U.S.
Research articles 2008-10-01
Egypt FM moots Arab force for Gaza
CAIRO AFP — Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said an Arab force for the Gaza Strip could help end violence in the impoverished territory, the official news agency MENA reported on Saturday. However the minister, in a magazine interview to appear on Sunday, stopped short of making a...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, Egypt, Israel, unity, violence
Research articles 2008-08-30
'Subversive' Turkish TV series takes Arab world by storm
BEIRUT AFP — Despite being branded "subversive" and "anti-Islamic" by a top Saudi Muslim cleric, millions of viewers from Beirut to Algiers tune in up to three times a day to watch the Turkish-made soap opera, "Noor", dubbed into Arabic. With his strawberry blond curls, blues eyes and engaging...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, TVs, women
Research articles 2008-08-24
A whiter shade of pale: skin-lightening in the Arab world
CAIRO AFP — Marwa wants a paler face and is willing to try a whole range of lightening creams that promise beauty, love and success to Arab women. But such products have also been slammed as "racism in a bottle". The 19-year-old Egyptian works for a hairdresser in the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, cream, Unilever PLC, women
Research articles 2008-08-19
Arab youth: the challenge of tomorrow
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Arab world covers some of the richest and the poorest communities in the world. While the oil-rich moguls of the Gulf States boast disposable incomes of many millions of dollars a year, in the mean streets of Cairo and the mountains of Afghanistan and Yemen, hundreds...
Tags: Arab, education, Government, industry, job, worker, World Bank
Research articles 2008-08-01
The art of balance: the other side of the coin
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In response to Adel Darwish's article in the July issue of TME, where Israel's ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, spoke of how, he believes, UK media reporting of Israel has become less objective in recent years, DR. JUDITH BROWN, adviser to the organisation Arab Media Watch,...
Tags: Arab, attack, British Broadcasting Corp., Israel, MARKETING, media
Research articles 2008-08-01
Suspected US missiles kill six in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan AFP — Suspected US missiles killed six people including three Arab militants in Pakistan's tribal belt on Monday, as the country's premier prepared for talks with US President George W. Bush. Three missiles struck a house attached to a mosque in the tribal district of South Waziristan,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse, Arab, Government, Manufacturing, missile, Pakistan, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-07-28
Egypt bids farewell to legendary director Chahine
CAIRO AFP — Egyptian screen stars were among around 1,500 mourners who gathered at a Cairo church on Monday to bid farewell to Arab cinema's most celebrated director, Youssef Chahine, who died on Sunday aged 82. Hundreds of celebrities and officials were crammed into the Roman Catholic Church of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, cinema, director
Research articles 2008-07-28
Legendary Egyptian film-maker Chahine dies
CAIRO AFP — Egyptian film-maker Youssef Chahine, Arab cinema's most celebrated director, died on Sunday aged 82 after several weeks in a coma, his friend and fellow director Khaled Yussef said. "Youssef Chahine died this morning at 3:30," said Yussef, who co-directed Chahine's latest film "Chaos" in 2007. ...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, CAREER, cinema, director, filmmaker, HEALTHCARE, TVs
Research articles 2008-07-27
Arab singers join Jordan festival despite Israel claims
AMMAN AFP — Jordan said on Wednesday that Arab singers have joined a controversial music festival despite claims it is being set up by the same company which organised Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations in May. The month-long "Jordan Festival kicked off on Tuesday, and the audience exceeded our expectations...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, boycott, festival, Government, Israel, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-07-09
UAE scraps billions in Iraqi debt, names Baghdad envoy
ABU DHABI AFP — The oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Sunday waived Iraq's debt of nearly seven billion dollars and named an envoy to Baghdad, in a twin boost timed with a visit by Iraq's prime minister. President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan told Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, ambassador, Arab, Baghdad, Iraq, U.A.E.
Research articles 2008-07-06
Arab singers to boycott Jordan festival over Israel
AMMAN AFP — Arab singers will boycott a music festival in Jordan next month over claims it is being set up by the same company which organised Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations in May, a union leader said on Monday. The month-long Jordan Festival, due to open on July 8,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, boycott, festival, Israel, Publicis
Research articles 2008-06-30
Arab countries to foot half the bill for Lebanese Palestinian camp
VIENNA AFP — Four Gulf states will foot around half of the bill of rebuilding a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon destroyed last year during clashes between Islamist militants and the Lebanese army, Lebanon's prime minister said Monday. "The contribution made by the four Arab Gulf States -- Saudi...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, conference, Leadership, Lebanon
Research articles 2008-06-23
Arab panel scold Islamic world for Darfur silence
KAMPALA AFP — An Arab human rights panel on Friday scolded the Islamic world for its silence on the conflict in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. "The suffering of Muslims in Darfur is as real as that happening in Iraq and Palestine," said the Arab Coalition for Darfur...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, Government, Iraq, silence, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-06-20
Egypt's "fourth pyramid', singer Oum Kalsoum, feted at Paris show
PARIS AFP — The life, voice and influence of Egypt's Oum Kalsoum, one of the greatest singers the Arab world has ever produced, are the theme of a major exhibit opening this week in Paris. "Her repertoire went from love songs to spiritual songs," said Egyptian Culture Minister Faruq...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, Egypt, Paris, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, voice
Research articles 2008-06-16
Arab rights groups urge Saudi to free jailed reformist
DUBAI AFP — More than two dozen Arab human rights groups urged Saudi Arabia on Thursday to release a prominent reformist who has been jailed since May, saying they feared for his health. "Signatories to the present statement, call upon the Saudi authorities to put an end to their...
Tags: activist, Agence France-Presse, Arab, arrest, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-06-12
YEMEN - The Political/Security Prospects For Yemen
The poorest country in the Arab world, Yemen faces serious security threats on several fronts. A gunman opened fire in a mosque in north Yemen on May 30, killing eight people and wounding dozens of others in the town of Kohal in 'Omran Province, north of the capital San'a'. An...
Tags: al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, Arab, attack, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-06-09
Saudi king, Abbas want Arab League role in Fatah-Hamas talks
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia AFP — Saudi King Abdullah and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Sunday agreed that the Arab League should oversee truce talks between Fatah and Hamas, a Palestinian diplomat said. "The two sides agreed that all inter-Palestinian dialogue should take place under the supervision of the Arab...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arab, FINANCE, Israel
Research articles 2008-06-08
UAE foreign minister on landmark visit to Iraq
BAGHDAD AFP — The Emirati foreign minister met Iraqi leaders on Thursday on the first visit to the violence-wracked country by a chief diplomat from a Arab country in the Gulf since the 2003 US invasion. The UAE's Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nayhan met his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, ambassador, Arab, Baghdad, diplomat, Government, Gulf, Iraq, minister, U.A.E.
Research articles 2008-06-05
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