Other plans included building an enormous new mosque in adjoining Taksim Square ... cities like Baghdad, Damascus, Alexandria and, to a lesser extent, Cordoba were centers of a cultural flowering ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) As the international community celebrates the fall of another dictatorship following the collapse of Syria's Assad regime, the future of ... at a Damascus mosque in ...

Vrinda Narain is a Board Director of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML ... Western governments must urge Damascus’s new rulers to pursue an inclusive political transition, as outlined ...

sparking a wave of women abandoning the purdah (veil). Women stepped out in long coats and hats, and by the 1970s, they were wearing skirts and working shoulder-to-shoulder with men in various ...

Damascus: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said that Qatar welcomes the new Syrian administration’s positive moves and that ...

DAMASCUS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - (This Dec. 18 story has been corrected to show that the New York Times first reported Tice's escape, in paragraph 11) The mother of American journalist Austin Tice ...

In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community. The dictator was gone. The new Islamist rulers had yet to ...

But as the manager of the Madad cultural center in Damascus, the trained lighting ... in the heart of the Syrian capital. Surrounded by women in boots puffing on cigarettes and men draped in ...

OPCW head expected to meet Syrian interim president Previous Assad government hindered chemical weapons inspections DAMASCUS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of ...