You don’t have to be Muslim to find good news in a recent study on mosque growth in the United States. Co-sponsored by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Hartford Institute on Religion, the...

Three Tunisian films have been proposed by the Ministry of Culture to the organizers of the 65th International Film Festival of Cannes, from May 16 to 27....

Middle Eastern and North African countries should reform the governance of their state-owned enterprises to bring about greater public accountability and improve their efficiency, according to a new...

Algeria has strongly defended in its negotiations,with the EU, for the strategic energy agreement, calling for the strengthening of EU investments in oil and gas, a source close to the issue told APS...

Morocco's government has agreed to amendments from parliament to widen the imposition of a new tax on firms to help it develop poor areas and help quash grumbling discontent over social inequalities,...

Algeria's legislative election takes placeon the 10th May. Much interest will be directed towards the size of the turn out and how the islamist parties will fare.Libya's elections slated for 22 June...

Free trade agreements have been promoted at an unprecedented rate during the last decades. Many countries have chosen to engage in preferential trade agreements for economic considerations....

Maroc Telecom the main telecommunication company in Morocco,has launched Loukkos, a new fiber optic submarine cable which links Morocco to Spain after the Atlas Offshore cable was damaged....

Several Tunisian centrist parties including the centre-left PDP agreed on Saturday to combine forces and gain more clout in a country increasingly challenged by Islamists ahead of general elections....

One of the lesser-known catalysts of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings was a global grain crop failure in 2010, caused by drought and flooding that year from Russia to Canada....

Environmentalists and local authorities are opposed to prospecting for oil in the waters off the Canary Islands, one of Europe’s leading tourist destinations and an area with great potential in the...

The situation in Egypt grew more confused as the Gamaa Islamiya put forward Safwat Hegazy as a candidate. Hegazy's name was put forward one day before the deadline for submitting applications to run...

As armed groups have captured Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu, the three largest cities in northern Mali, the differences within the alliance have begun to emerge. There are reports of rape and looting in...

At a crowded corner of the Tripoli Medical Centre, people gather every morning to submit paperwork for medical treatment abroad, or worriedly scan new lists of approved names plastering the walls....

The 10th international plastic arts festival takes place in Fez from April 06-26, under the theme: "the plastic art and education challenges."...

The Mauritanian government signed a contract last night for production and sharing of oil production with British Comany Chariot Oil and Gas the Qatar News Agency reports....

Morocco’s tourism sector generated revenues amounting to 440 billion MAD over the 2001-2010, Tourism Minister Lahcen Haddad said. The revenues...

Under intense pressure from the nations bordering Mali, the junior officer who seized control of the country in a coup last month signed an accord, agreeing late Friday to return the country to...

Sotheby's London will present its sale of Arts of the Islamic World on 25th April, 2012. The auction, which comprises 290 lots and is expected to realise £7 – 10 million, will include distinguished...