Riyadh: As pilgrims started arriving from all over the world for the annual Haj which is due in the first week of November, authorities and agencies concerned are fully geared to extend them the best services. The authorities are making use of the latest means of technology to streamline the process of receiving and dispatching [...]

Municipality of Riyadh, in collaboration with a number of official and non-official bodies, offers a laudable celebration program for Eid Al Fitr this year. This comes as a gesture of sharing joy with residents of our precious capital, on this blessed occasion, through a number of festive and recreational events and activities. Eid Al Fitre [...]

huffingtonpost – But they can be built in the other 56 Muslim-majority countries in the world! As Americans, do we want to compare ourselves to the single exception to the rule of interfaith tolerance? After all, we pride ourselves on our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom of expression… freedoms that are [...]

A man who ripped a veil from a Muslim woman’s face as she walked though Glasgow has been jailed for two years. William Baikie, 26, admitted racially assaulting 26-year-old Anwar Alqahtani by forcibly removing her niqab in the city’s Hope Street on 27 April. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how Baikie, who has previous convictions for [...]

RIYADH — Former boxing champion Mike Tyson, who converted to Islam while in jail in the 1990s, is visiting the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina on pilgrimage, a Saudi daily reported on Saturday. Tyson, who was world heavyweight champion from 1986 to 1990, arrived on Friday in Medina with the Canadian Dawa Association [...]

Dreaming of an advanced degree? Try a doctorate in dreams, something which could soon become a reality in a new Saudi academy offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. Yusuf al-Harthy, a well-known Saudi dream interpreter, plans to start up an institute offering bachelors and masters degrees as well as even a PhD in explaining dreams and [...]

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims are flocking to the home of a 9-month-old boy in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan to see the verses from the Koran that seem to appear and fade on his body every few days.

Yvonne Ridley (born 1968, Stanley, County Durham, England) is a British journalist and RespectPartypolitician best known for her capture by the Taliban and subsequent conversion to Islam after release.   Capture by the Taliban, conversion to Islam after release Yvonne Ridley came to prominence in September 2001 when she was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan whilst working for the Sunday Express. Repeatedly refused an entrance visa, she decided to follow the example [...]