A group of Vietnamese Muslims will go on Hajj this year thanks to assistance from the Kuwait Endowments Public Foundation, an official at the Kuwaiti consulate in Vietnam has said. Abdul Razzaq Al Khalifa, Acting Charge d’Affaires in Ho Chi Minh Abderrazaq Al said that the assistance was part of a drive to help...
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The first strategic dialogue between Russia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and important regional organisations will take place in Abu Dhabi on November 1, the Russian ambassador in Qatar has said. The ministerial-level meeting will focus on areas of cooperation between Russia and the GCC countries on the economic and political fronts...
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Fareed Hassan, the former editor-in-chief of Al Waqt, a Bahraini daily that has now ceased publishing, said he owes a lot to the UAE and will always be grateful to the country and its people. “I was a witness to how the nation was built. I was there when it was happening,” he said.
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Jalil Omar, editor at Al Ayam daily, said the UAE experiment was among the most successful Arab unions. “Many other experiments have lamentably failed, but the UAE has been a bright example of uniting all forces and moving forward vibrantly, mainly thanks to the robust foundations laid by the late Shaikh Zayed [Bin Sultan...
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Kuwait has pledged a zero-tolerance policy against illegal advertisement ahead of Eid Al Adha, to be celebrated on November 6. Fadhil Safar, the Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs, said that the municipality’s teams would make sure that violations against advertisement on state property would be handled before the...
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A parliamentary committee has endorsed a move by a lawmaker to include Bahraini women married with foreigners in all royal benefits accorded to Bahraini families. The Bahraini women must be living in Bahrain with her husband in order to benefit from benefits extended otherwise exclusively to Bahraini families, the Women and children’s affairs committee...
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Bahraini would-be pilgrims have laid to rest a fellow citizen who died in his sleep at a cemetery in Makkah. Sayed Sadiq Sayed Hashem, 24, died on Saturday, a short time after performing Umrah, the smaller pilgrimage. Friends said that he was still wearing his ihram garments, consisting of two pieces of white sheet...
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Ways on how education can be more effective in addressing social, economic, political and sustainable development challenges in an ever-changing world will be the focus of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha. The three-day forum to open on Tuesday under the theme of “Changing Societies, Changing Education” is an international initiative...
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The design of Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) building that combines the traditional and the modern is part of a larger dialogue between Islamic and Western architecture that will continue for years, Paul Goldberger, an architecture critic has said. “Even the quest in this design to find some common ground between traditional elements...
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Al Nahda, the Islamist party that dominated Tunisia’s elections this week, said that veiled and unveiled women would be in the coalition government it is forming. Outlining the tendencies of the party as it leads talks for the formation of the government that will mange Tunisia for at least one year until a constitution...
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