An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have begun their annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for Haj, with many prayers focusing on a peaceful resolution to the recent uprisings in the Arab world.
The Arab Spring is bearing fruit...months after the ousting of dictators, new political regimes are emerging: in Tunisia, where the first post-revolution elections have taken place, it's Islamists who are likely to take power. What will that mean for the future of the Arab world? What kind of democracy will emerge from it?
The Arab Spring is bearing fruit...months after the ousting of dictators, new political regimes are emerging: in Tunisia, where the first post-revolution elections have taken place, it's Islamists who are likely to take power. What will that mean for the future of the Arab world? What kind of democracy will emerge from it?
Egypt’s opposition talks of broken trust with the military after a bloodbath that left at least two dozen pro-Coptic Christians dead in Cairo. On the show, an eyewitness account from Sunday’s march and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Dina Zakaria who accuses the army of stalling on elections.
Egypt’s opposition talks of broken trust with the military after a bloodbath that left at least two dozen pro-Coptic Christians dead in Cairo. On the show, an eyewitness account from Sunday’s march and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Dina Zakaria who accuses the army of stalling on elections.
Annette Young meets Christopher Caldwell, Author of "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe" and Senior Editor at The Weekly Standard. The touchy subject of Muslim immigration to Europe has become an electoral issue across the continent, especially here in France which is heading towards a presidential election next year.
Parisian Muslims escaped a government ban on street prayers Friday when some 5,000 worshippers piled into a makeshift mosque in the north of the capital.
We join the French Socialists on the road as they gear up for their primaries. Also, as the holy month of Ramadan kicks off, we take you to France's newest mosque in Strasbourg. Finally, we take a look at the French girl band Brigitte, named after the iconic Bardot.
In Tuesday's French papers - the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal rumbles on, as a French journalist presses charges for attempted rape - and he sues her for defamation; and in other news, Paris' Muslim community may finally get a decent place to pray, and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi calls the Benghazi rebels rats - and says the family will never negotiate.
Sylvain Attal meets Amine Gemayel, former president of Lebanon and one of its high-profile Christian opposition figures. They discuss Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s new government and growing political tensions in Lebanon.
