By Simon Tisdall Nicolas Sarkozy’s flat rejection of Turkey’s EU membership bid does not mean the game is up for Ankara. France’s ambitious interior minister believes he is a natural successor to Jacques Chirac. But he has not been elected president yet – and will not be if the centre-left’s likely candidate, S_gol_ne Royal, has…
MADRID – Spain, the Western country most marked by Arab civilization, solemnly decided to reopen the annals of its Arab past and to rebuild the bridges with the Muslim world, demolished with the fall of Granada in 1492, by signing the founding charters of “la Casa _rabe”, and of the International Institute of Arab Studies…
Xavier Ternisien explores the reasons for the crises at the Muslim Council of France. He claims that it has made no progress on any of the important issues facing Muslims in France (chaplaincies, construction of mosques, halal meat, foundation for Islam works, organizing the annual pilgrimage) and had no effect on the major issues such…
