Education has many definitions and interpretations. In this article, education refers to the process of acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to meet the needs of the job market, even though this may not necessarily be the ultimate goal of education. The process evolves through a teacher student interaction involving the transference of knowledge. In the conventional system (mainly British), knowledge …

  Following the re-election of Barack Obama in last week’s US presidential poll, Washington and its allies have stepped up their war drive against Syria. In the most serious escalation of the 20-month conflict in the Middle East country, the Israeli armed forces fired a missile into Syrian territory Sunday.   The strike, by an advanced Tammuz guided missile, is …

In 1999, I travelled to Iraq with Denis Halliday who had resigned as assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain, the extreme suffering caused by these “sanctions” included, according to Unicef, the deaths of half a million Iraqi infants under the age of …

Maryam Jameelah (Margret Marcus), born in New York to a Jewish family explored Judaism and other faiths, converted to Islam in 1961 and emigrated to Pakistan. She is an author of over thirty books on Islamic culture and history and a prominent female voice for Islam. Below is her letter that she wrote to her parents from Pakistan:   “Dear …

Obama’s 2008 victory was not just a flash in the pan. America has now proved to the world that it is not racial as it was one time thought.   Could we ever expect in any country, in the world, a person belonged to a minority community to be elected as president and re-elected for the same position once again? …