the Kuwaiti Ambassador  to Canada Hussein Al-Sammak announced that Kuwaiti Government   has donated  a one million Canadian dollars (807000 $) to constructs a new Islamic centre in Toronto, Canada.   the ambassador  said that the Kuwaiti diplomatic mission handed over the donation to “Alfajr Institute of Islamic Sciences in Toronto” to build a new  centre will be named “the State …

Your Voice is a non-partisan voter education and motivation campaign aiming to inform Canadian Arabs across the country about their right and responsibility to vote, and encourage them to engage in the country’s democratic process. WHY THIS CAMPAIGN?  AN EMERGING COMMUNITY In 2010, Arab immigration to Canada reached an all-time high, with the arrival of 34,657 citizens of Arab countries, Arab immigrants …

As the country prepares to celebrate Canada Day, the Canadian Arab Institute today shares with Canadians an Arabic and a trilingual (English, French, Arabic) version of the Canadian national anthem. Sung by soprano Miriam Khalil, Ya Canada is an expression of pride in our citizenship, and a commitment to our vision for an empowered and engaged community in an inclusive …

 By: Samer Muscati  Human Rights Watch  The nightmare of 12-year-old “Jalila” began when Islamic State fighters abducted her, along with her family, in northern Iraq. They separated her from her family and imprisoned her in a house in north-eastern Syria with other abducted Yezidi women and girls. Then the jihadist fighters came, one after another, to inspect them. One singled …

By: Jonathan Cook  Experience should have proved that one has to be credulous in the extreme – or brainwashed by Zionism – to take seriously “rebuttals” by the Israeli army of evidence of its abuses and war crimes. But for any who still harbour suspicions that claims by the Israeli army aren’t simply self-serving deceptions, take a look at its latest report into last year’s …

On Thursday, the UNHCR released its latest report ” The UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War”.  it said that worldwide displacement was at the highest level ever recorded. And the number of people who forced to displaced at 2014 rose to 59.5 million compared to 51.2 million a year earlier. It also showed that over half the world’s …

The federal government says it will table a new legislation requiring members of the public to show their faces at citizenship ceremonies. The bill will ban face coverings, like niqab. Conservative Ministers Denis Lebel and Tim Uppal announced lately the law, after the Liberal government in Quebec introduced the “Bill 62” which would ban face covering veils among civil servants …

  This year, Muslims in Canada launched a campaign to feed the hungry during “Ramadan” the holy fasting month. The campaign will begin in the first day of Ramadan 18 June across North America and will runs until September 11. The campaign started in 2012, and it becomes a national campaign with eleven partner food banks in six provinces.  It …

Written by Maria Jesús Viguera Molins and Louis Werner Art by Belén Esturla Yusuf Ibn al-Shaykh al-Balawi was born in Málaga, on the southern coast of what is now Spain, in 1132, during the last years of the Almoravid dynasty’s rule in what was then Al-Andalus. He is known to have made only one trip outside his homeland, a pilgrimage …

Human Rights Watch By: Belkis Wille Walid al-Ibbi, 35, a barber from Saada city in northwest Yemen, is one of only four members of his family left alive. A few days ago, he sat with me in a garden in Sanaa, the capital, sharing pictures of his late wife and daughters. Over and over he repeated the words, “I can’t believe …