Mideast tour for imam of proposed mosque near ground zero to cost taxpayers $16,000

US spending $16,000 for imam’s Mideast tour

UAE releases 300 prisoners

ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has released over 300 prisoners of various nationalities to mark the advent of the holy month of Ramadan.

Protesting in verse: A Saudi woman criticizes Muslim clerics’ in a TV poetry contest

Saudi woman blasts clerics in TV contest poem

In the Gulf, Christians are ‘tolerated, but not popular,’ Vatican’s top cleric says

Vatican’s top cleric in Arabia walks a thin line