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Egypt’s Copts fearful amid increasing tensions, By JEFFREY FLEISHMAN

CAIRO, Egypt — Father Metyas Mankarios ministers to garbage men and runs a newspaper for Coptic Christians from an office crammed with brittle archives above vegetable sellers and fishmongers barking out prices along the muddy roads of a Cairo neighborhood. Few have it easy here. From dawn until deep into the night, there is the clatter of making a living, …

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The roar behind Sino-US row, By Ameen Izzadeen

In 1987, US President Ronald Reagan pointing at the Berlin Wall during a visit to West Germany, bluntly said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Two years after this famous Reagan remark, the wall that divided Germany for 28 years collapsed, leading to the reunification of Germany. In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev helplessly watched the Soviet Union disintegrate into 15 independent …

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US-Islamic World Forum begins today

DOHA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will join Qatar’s Prime Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani to address the seventh edition of US-Islamic World Forum opening here today. The three-day event, being jointly hosted by the US think- tank Brookings Institution and Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, …

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Michael Wolfe

“I did not want to ‘trade in’ my culture. I wanted access to new meanings.” – How an American writer born of a Jewish father and a Christian mother found spiritual fulfillment in Islam. After twenty-five years a writer in America, I wanted something to soften my cynicism. I was searching for new terms by which to see. The way …

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U. professor becomes first Muslim superior court judge, By Asraa Mustufa

A University political science professor became the first Muslim ever to be appointed to the Superior Court in New Jersey on Jan. 27 when he was sworn in to the Family Division of the Court in Somerset County. Hany Mawla, 36, is also the youngest to be appointed to the Superior Court in the state, said Hesham Mahmoud, media chair …

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