Articles tagged with: Muslim world
By Scott Wilson
Rashad Hussain, President Obama’s new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, was an avid high school debater in Plano, Tex., where he grew up.
His debate partner and best friend was …
By Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi
Lecture at Edinburgh University – 9 September 2009
In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Beneficent
The importance of this conference is due to its focus on the most critical concept in contemporary …
By Faisal Kutty
Writing in Persuasive Authorities
I had the honour of spending a few days last week with a number of constitutional scholars at the International Association of Law Schools conference on Constitutional Law held jointly …
Reviewed By FAISAL KUTTY
Published in The Globe And Mail
Nineteenth-century French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the relationship between religion and democracy in the West was the “great problem of our time.” While arguably it …
By Nader Hashemi
On June 4, 2009, President Obama will travel to Egypt to deliver his long-awaited speech on relations between the United States and the Muslim world. From the outset the venue has been …
By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and KARIN LAUB
CAIRO, Egypt – Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq — that’s what Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia …
By Haroon Siddiqui
There was the American overreach under George W. Bush. Now there’s Barack Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world.
On Wednesday, he will be in Saudi Arabia to meet King Abdullah. On Thursday, he …
By GEOFF PEVERE
In 2004, the Save the Children organization conducted a survey of Afghan children. They were asked to name their greatest fears. Considering the wars that had decimated the …
By Anwar Ibrahim
Publisher: New Perspective Quarterly
Ibrahim comments favourably on early efforts by the Obama administration to be a better partner for the Muslim World but argues that Muslims themselves must change in …
By Shahina Siddiqui
The news of the brutal murder of Sitara Achakzai, a female member of Kandahar’s Provincial Council, earlier this month comes on the heel of the excruciating video of a young girl in Swat, …
By Tariq Ramadan
Thursday 2 April 2009
In a recent article I discussed the critical role the European Union must play now that Barack Obama has assumed power in the United States. In order to make international …
On his visit to Turkey last week, President Obama made important progress toward recalibrating America’s relations with the Islamic world. The president steered away from the poisonous post-9/11 clash of civilizations mythology that drove so …
Christi Parsons
Laura King
LOS ANGELES TIMES
ANKARA, Turkey – When President Barack Obama declared yesterday that the United States “is not, and will never be, at war with Islam,” he was talking to Turkey’s parliament. But his …
President Barack Obama, left, smiles at his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, right, during a ceremony at the Cankaya presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 6, 2009. Obama paid tribute to the memory of modern …
