A Yemeni Professor Sounds an Urgent Call to Help Traumatized Students. The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is the largest in the world, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the crisis is growing. Around 24 million people are in need of humanitarian aid. Yemeni youth are possibly the most affected by the…
On First UN Day for Victims of Religiously-Motivated Violence To mark the first International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, established by a United Nations resolution earlier this year, the multi-religious Board of Vienna-based King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), recently…
In our closely interconnected world, where people from diverse communities are now heavily interdependent on each other, harmonious inter-community coexistence has become nothing less than an existential necessity for humankind. Across the world, a variety of initiatives to bring together people from diverse faith backgrounds to work for the common good are underway. Given the…
Our common humanness, cemented by a desire to be of service to someone in some way or the other, brought us together. By Zizzy Yesterday, I had a really wonderful Sunday! No, no, I didn’t laze around in bed till lunchtime! Nor did I watch the latest movie on TV! And no, I definitely didn’t…
Our own lives are like a salad cauldron a mix of joy and sorrow, difficulties and ease. What we put into this salad of life is actually up to each one’s conscience. By Raheny In this day and age when in many public places there are CC cameras installed so that people can be caught…
Having seen suffering first hand and losing his wife to cancer, Syed Zameeruddin Kamali today volunteers at Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Bangalore, guiding and helping patients both morally and monetarily. (By Nigar and Dolcy) Having seen suffering first hand and losing his wife to cancer, Syed Zameeruddin Kamali today volunteers at Sri Shankara…
By Jim Al-Khalili Excerpts: Muslim-majority countries spend, on average, less than 0.5% of their GDP on research and development, compared with five times that in the advanced economies. They also have fewer than ten scientists, engineers, and technicians per thousand residents, compared to the global average of 40 “ and 140 in the developed world.…
He doesn’t have any fancy degree in catering or hospitality, but Muneer Ahmed of M.K. Caterers has made a major mark in Bangalore for his famous biryani through sheer hard work and hands-on experience! In a quiet lane off a busy road near Shivajinagar in Bangalore, there is a tiny room adorned with calendars and…
600 Muslim families evicted in Assam, weeks before elections “Seven to eight policemen entered the house and started ransacking it. I could take some stuff out. When I came back, I saw Kulsuma was lying on the floor and couldn’t move,” Ramisa Khatun told Al Jazeera. Assam: Authorities in the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC)…
Muslim Physicians and their important contribution to Mental Health Muslim physicians wrote about many mental diseases like anxiety, depression, melancholia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, paranoia, forgetfulness, sexual disorder, persecutory delusions and obsessive-compulsive disorder among other mental diseases. They were the first ones to add ‘psychosomatic disorder’ to the vocabulary of the history of psychology. The Ancient Greeks…
