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The Iranian charge d'affairs in Cairo has been summoned by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry to explain recent comments attributed to the Islamic Republic's foreign minister, in which he criticized Palestinian leaders taking part in the direct peace talks between Israel and the

The United States, including Lakers star Lamar Odom, blew out Iran score-wise in the basketball game between the two teams in the FIBA World Championship in Istanbul on Wednesday with an 88-51 victory over the Islamic Republic.

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Apple announced a slew of new products, including an updated Apple TV that will make a play for cable and Netflix; an entire new line of iPods; and a refreshed version of iTunes. All of these are geared toward a singular vision of a new Apple, which produces the world’s most beautiful boxes and interfaces [...]

The prevailing sentiment in the Arabic press as the U.S. combat presence in Iraq formally comes to an end seems to be that the combat troops may have left Iraq, but the damage is done.

In a highly anticipated speech Tuesday night, President Obama announced the end to America's combat mission in Iraq but stopped short of declaring victory.

منطقة لبنانية تجمع خصب الــبــقــاع وخيراته وعنفوان الجبل وقساوته مع نفح نسمات جنوبية، انها منطقة راشيا نسبة لمركز القضاﺀ بلدة راشيا، وهــــي مــنــطــقــة وطــنــيــة نموذجية يحفل تاريخها بـــالـــمـــحـــطـــات وتــشــهــد تطورا بارزا وحركة يومية ناشطة. يقع قضاﺀ راشيا في محافظة الــبــقــاع عند سفح جبل الشيخ، حــرمــون، قــرب الــحــدود اللبنانية السورية وهو ينتمي الى المنطقة التاريخية التي كانت تُعرف باسم منطقة وادي التيم الذي شهد على الكثير من الحقبات وكان له دور مهم فيها، وهذه المنطقة تطورت كثيرا وتعرف اليوم ازديادا عمرانيا يتوسع عاما بعد عام، ويترافق مع ازدهـــار تــجــاري وحــركــة سياحية لم تعرفها من قبل، في ظل طرح العديد من المشاريع الانمائية والسياحية التي تعود بفرص عمل وتستقطب السيّاح ما يؤدي الى النهوض بالمنطقة وتطويرها.

Amid the controversy and international outcry sparked by the stoning sentence handed down to a 43-year-old Iranian mother of two, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Iran's supreme court reportedly has sentenced two more people to stoning on charges of adultery.

Egyptian political activists are furious at fellow democracy and human rights campaigner Saad Eddin Ibrahim after the sociologist signed a petition urging President Hosni Mubarak's son, Gamal, to run in the 2011 elections.

A rare victory was won by Iranian moderates Monday. The legislature opted to shelve a controversial set of proposals that activists said would have further restricted women's rights. 
According to a report by the Iranian Labor News Agency, Iran's parliament has decided to send three articles of the family law bill back into committee for additional study. 

Three lawyers have filed a lawsuit against President Hosni Mubarak, holding him indirectly responsible for the disappearance of a priest's wife following her alleged conversion from Christianity to Islam.
Kamelia Shehata Zakher, wife of priest Thaddeus Samaan Rizk of Mowas Priory church in Minya, 152 miles south of Cairo, disappeared for five days last month before security authorities found and returned her to her husband.

The leader of the proposed Manhattan Islamic cultural center near the site of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks told a Persian Gulf newspaper that there was no conflict between Islam and America and dismissed the opponents of the Park51 project as being led by "very small, vociferous voices."

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ينكب الشاب الجنوبي حسن الزيات من بلدة طيردبا في قضاﺀ صور على كتابة أكبر مصحف في العالم منذ أربع سنوات، جامعا بين هويته التخطيط وحفظ القرآن وتدريس مادة الدين الاسلامي، طامحا في ذات الوقت دخول موسوعة غينيس للأرقام القياسية، اذ يفوق طوله المتر الواحد وبضعة سنتيمترات فيما عرضه يتجاوز 70 سنتم، ووزنه يصل الى 125 كلغ، وتبلغ صفحاته 618 منها 604 صفحات من القرآن الكريم والباقي دعاﺀ الخاتمة وهوامش. داخــل منزله في بلدة طيردبا، يمضي الزيات ساعات كل يوم في نقش كلام الله على المصحف الذي اختار فيه كل شيﺀ بعناية: كرتون مقوى، الوان مختلفة، أقلام متنوعة حتى نوعية الحبر مــن الياباني الاصلي الــذي يعتبر الافضل في علم التخطيط.

The leading Islamic scholar of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's Grand Mufti Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz Haddad, appears to be deeply concerned over the growing numbers of Emirati men that are marrying foreign women.

His solution: Curb mixed marriages and impose restrictions on Emirati men that are marrying foreign women. In Haddad's opinion, Emirati men should only think of marrying a foreign woman as a last resort.

لو أنّ فخامتك تزور الجرود العكارية من القبيات إلى القموعة وتتعرّف إلى غنى الطبيعة المنسية والناس المنسيين الغارقين في غياهب الفقر القسري فيحسوا ولو لمرّة بأن هذه الدولة تأبه لهم خارج فصول الإنتخابات والشهادة في سبيل الوطن. Share this on Facebook Email this via Gmail Blog this on Blogger Subscribe to the comments for this post? Email this via Hotmail Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Email this via Yahoo! Mail Add this to Google Bookmarks Post on Google Buzz Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good?