The new commander of the old city of Damascus was miffed ... as the Assads’. Women are worried, too. Notices have appeared on lampposts ordering them to wear the veil. The new justice minister ...

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 ...

Tehran, Jan 31 (EFE).- The Iranian government announced recently announced its decision not to punish women who do not wear the mandatory Islamic veil and has reduced the presence of the morality ...

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 ...

DAMASCUS - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new leaders in Damascus were a first step towards ending years of ...

(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 ...

Colorful Ortakoy mosque and Bosphorus Bridge in the background. Istanbul is known for its incredible Ottoman-era (and beyond) architecture and that extends to its mosques and other places of worship.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...