Named a Finalist Because: Owned and operated by a war-zone refugee, Yassin’s is so much more than a place to get a good meal — it has become an engine of kindness and charity. From the Editors: In ...

JERUSALEM, March 22 (JTA) — As a journalist, I met Sheik Ahmed Yassin twice during my visits to the Gaza Strip. The first time was when I attended a military court hearing in 1984, when Yassin was ...

Ahmed Yassin, religious leader: born Majdal, Palestine 1 January 1929; married (11 children); died Gaza City 22 March 2004. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was the spiritual leader of the Islamic Resistance ...

As a journalist, I met Sheik Ahmed Yassin twice during my visits to the Gaza Strip. The first time was when I attended a military court hearing in 1984, when Yassin was sentenced to 13 years in prison ...

Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a quadriplegic preacher, founded the Islamic militant group Hamas in 1987 and presided over its rise to a violent, radical alternative to Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority.

April 9 marked the 70th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, in which Jewish militias murdered over 100 Palestinian men, women and children as part of a self-described “cleansing” campaign to ...

The assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin could be a watershed event - for the Middle East as a whole perhaps, but certainly for Hamas, the militant organisation that he founded. Sheikh Yassin was seen ...

Thursday is not only a legendary day for Egypt due to the first post-revolutionary presidential elections. It also marks the 40-year anniversary of artist, actor and comedian Ismail Yassin's death.

27 May - Yassin Yahya has finally opened up about his arrest in Jeddah, having been detained in Saudi Arabia for the past six months. The comedian, who shared his experience with good friend Saiful ...

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was killed by an Israeli air strike yesterday, probably aged 67, was a handicapped Palestinian refugee who founded Hamas, the Islamic movement whose combination of political ...