British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died at age 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents... Read more »
Veteran British socialist Jeremy Corbyn called for his new political party to “come together” as he opened its inaugural conference Saturday, as it seeks to move on from a messy launch and... Read more »
2025-11-29T13:40:20+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad One week after Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court dissolved parliament and reduced the government to caretaker status, the battle over who... Read more »
There is a common narrative that shows up in classrooms, on social media, and in graphic “partition maps” that Jews illegally moved into Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine as outsiders, seized land... Read more »
Shafaq News Once a defining marker of identity and scholarship across the Arab world, Arabic handwriting is now in steady decline. Teachers from Baghdad to Amman and Cairo say they increasingly struggle... Read more »
When author Rachel Cockerell started a nonfiction book project about her late Jewish grandmother in the UK, the last thing she suspected her research would turn up was a long-forgotten great-grandfather’s involvement... Read more »
2025-11-28T15:44:18+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Damascus On Friday, multiple governments and international bodies condemned the Israeli raid on the Syrian town of Beit Jinn (Beet Gian),... Read more »
The new US ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, recently delivered a speech in Warsaw in which he categorically absolved Poland – and by extension the Polish people – of any responsibility whatsoever for... Read more »
2025-11-28T16:36:16+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Beirut The Lebanese Army said it has completed most of the initial stage of the “Homeland Shield” plan in southern Lebanon,... Read more »
Sylvan Adams, president of the World Jewish Congress Israel and Middle East region and one of Israel’s most prominent philanthropists, will speak at the Israel Hayom summit in Manhattan on December 2.... Read more »