2nd July 2021, marks 121st birth anniversary of Muhammad Asad. He was born as Leopold Weiss in Lviv Ukraine and rose to fame as a journalist, traveler, writer, lin-guist, political theorist, diplomat an Islamic scholar and most importantly as a worker of Pakistan Movement.
During his life time Asad...
The Kyiv Post’s March 29 Capturing New Markets conference presented a discussion of the key strategies that Ukrainian companies can use in exporting to the European Union, Turkey and the Middle East and North Africa region. The conference attracted more than 260 business people, journalists and...
For centuries Muslims have been an integral part of Ukrainian society, but they also remained a quiet, little-noticed part until the momentous events of the EuroMaidan Revolution and Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014-15.
Many Muslims were active participants in the EuroMaidan Revolution, and...
IN June 1772, Russian forces bombarded, stormed and captured Beirut, a fortress on the coast of Ottoman Syria. The Russians were backing their ally, a ruthless Arab despot. When they returned the next year, they occupied Beirut for almost six months. Then as now, they found Syrian politics a...
Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other religions. Murder rates in most of the Muslim world are very low compared to the United States.
As for political violence, people of Christian heritage in the twentieth century polished off tens...
On Tuesday evening, two Republican presidential candidate hopeful accidentally enraged Ukrainian Americans with a single word: "the." John Kasich and Donald Trump referred to Ukraine as "the Ukraine," a common but unfortunate mistake. Lindsey Graham made the same blunder at the third GOP debate. ...
The “Ode to Joy” is the great hymn of Europe. However, more and more Europeans do not sing along to it so fervently when it says: “Be embraced, you millions”. The financial crisis and the controversial payments to the Greeks have seriously shaken the idea of Europe and its foundations. On the...
Several hundred persons attended the solemn opening of Ichkerian General Isa Munaev’s Commemorable Exposition Stand on Sunday, September 6, despite the heavy rain. Isa was killed in battle near Debaltsevo earlier this year, in February. Personal stand containing the Peoples’ of Icheria and Ukraine...
More than two million people are now refugees or internally displaced due to war but their plight is little reported.
"All our belongings were destroyed. We don't have bed linen, we don't have a fork, we don't have a spoon".
Natalya Beskorovana’s words condense the everyday reality of the majority...
Sheikh Said Ismagilov, mufti, performed a monitoring of the situation in the occupied part of Donbas and shared his information on RISU blog.
"The Holy Ramadan is the most important period of religious calendar for...
Four years ago, Moldova’s Muslims, a tiny minority in this overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian country of 3.56 million, won the legal right to organize. But now, following the arrests of suspected collaborators with Islamic State, they face another daunting challenge – fighting the stereotype that...
