At the Lighthouse Grace Academy in Nairobi's downmarket Kwangware suburb, yellow school t-shirts carry the slogan 'To Fear God is Wisdom', but in their hands pupils clutch a more worldly path to knowledge: tablet computers. The hand-sized tablets are part of the 'Kio Kit', a...

(The Guardian)- Who would want to be a woman in Aleppo? The female population of Syria’s second city find themselves threatened both by the murderous misogynists of Islamic State (Isis) and the Russian allies of the president, Bashar al-Assad, whose bombing raids mean that now even bad...

By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Special)- Only few Hours after the bloody attacks of Paris that killed more than 130 people ,  Bashar al-Assad met a number of French parliamentarians, intellectuals and media figures in his presidential palace, ...

An online profile of one of the men in a video posted by Islamic State after mass shootings and suicide bombings in Paris shows how hard it is to predict where the next threat will emerge. Unlike the sons of Muslim immigrants wanting to reconnect with their identities, the blue-eyed man,...