Islam World

Dozens of Afghan women demonstrated in the capital, Kabul, against the Taliban authorities’ deprivation of women’s right to work. The Afghan TV news channel, Tolo, which reported the news, stated that the female demonstrators expressed their complaints about the continued…

A hundred days passed since Iranian authorities took the passport of Ayatollah Sayyid Hussein al-Shirazi, the eldest son of the supreme religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, imposing a travel ban on him. The government continues in its…

An Iraqi group of visitors from southern governorates arrived at the shrine of Sayyida Zainab (peace be upon her) after a journey that lasted for days, walking towards her sanctified shrine in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Shia Waves Agency monitored…

The Karbala Center for Studies and Research held an extraordinary meeting to develop a preparatory plan for organizing the Seventh International Scientific Conference for the Blessed Arbaeen Pilgrimage, in the presence of a number of center members and concerned authorities.…

The Turkish online newspaper, Medya Gazete, reported that Tonsili Mundur University held a special conference to commemorate the eternal battle of Karbala. The newspaper said in a report, “The eleventh edition of this conference, which is held this year under…

With poor rainfall, extreme heat waves and droughts, climate change could displace millions of people in the Middle East, the world’s most water-poor region, with the risk of environmentally detrimental urban expansion and probable conflicts over resources. According to the…

 The Shirazi-affiliated al-Bayt Center for Islamic Thought in Baghdad held an intellectual symposium titled ‘Crisis between Withdrawal and Interaction’.  The symposium opened by reciting verses from the Noble Qur’an, then a lecture was delivered by the preacher and researcher Hojjat…

Female students at the University of Badakhshan, northeastern Afghanistan, were subjected to a horrific attack by an official of the Taliban terrorist movement, to prevent them from entering the university campus, despite wearing Islamic dress. Civilian activists widely shared a…

A restoration project has recently been completed on Jameh Mosque of Forumad, a 700-year-old place of worship situated in Semnan province, Iran. The project involved flooring, repairing walls and rooftops as well as building gutters, a local tourism official said…

The Shirazi-affiliated institutions continue to aid campaigns to provide help to the needy and orphans in various Islamic countries in general, and Afghanistan in particular. A statement by the official website of the Shirazi Authority, received by Shia Waves Agency,…