Amira joined Newsweek in 2025 from The Wall Street Journal and had previously worked at the Daily News Egypt. She studied ... alleged insult against the Prophet Muhammad. Newsweek has reached ...

The fighting in the southern Damascus suburb of Jaramana began after an audio clip circulated on social media of a man criticizing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. ANALYSIS: Syria’s resurgence of ...

Syrian security forces intervened to restore calm, but then Israel attacked Syria, claiming it was ... a voice recording of a man cursing the Prophet Muhammad circulated, with claims that ...

The Aga Khan IV was laid to rest on Sunday at a private ceremony in Aswan, Egypt. The death of Prince ... to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and is treated as a head of state.

Syria Civil War: Syria’s intelligence agency ... Sayyida Zaynab is the great granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad from his daughter, Fatima, and her husband, the fourth Caliph, and the first ...

Millions of displaced Palestinians already live in surrounding Arab countries as refugees, including in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. Far-right Israeli ministers have increasingly called for ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Steven Heydemann, Middle East Studies director at Smith College, about how Syria might avoid replicating ... Meanwhile, in nearby Egypt... (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

CAIRO – The Islamist takeover of Syria has left Egypt apprehensive and cautiously calibrating future ties, years after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power by toppling the Muslim ...