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Saudi women demands right to drive
Saudi Arabia trussed for possible protests after women activists declared an “open driving campaign” against the kingdom’s ban on women behind the wheel. More than 60 women claimed to have answered their call to get behind the wheel in a rare show of defiance against a ban on female driving in the Salafi kingdom, according […]
Pope reaches 10 million Twitter followers
As a milestone in the Vatican’s drive to spread the gospel through social media, a jubilant Pope Francis celebrated reaching 10 million followers on messaging site Twitter. The first non-European pope in 1,300 years has tripled the number of followers of the Pontifex handles since succeeding Benedict XVI in March, according to the Vatican, which […]
Safety, Violence Fears On the Mt Everest
Six major mountaineering companies that lead the Mount Everest expedition have decided to call off their 2014 climbs citing violence and safety concerns at the base camp after the Sherpa guides, hysterical over the death of their colleagues, threatened to boycott this year’s climbing season. The avalanche that struck on Friday killed sixteen guides carrying […]
Referendum: Crimeans Back ‘Going Home’
With more than ninety five percent of the Crimeans backing the peninsula’s unification with Russia in a referendum held on Sunday, Crimea’s parliament has formally declared independence.The Black Sea peninsula which was once a part of Russia will be annexed to what crimeans called as returning to their motherland. People celebrated in Lenin Square in […]
Muhammad: In History and Piety
A manuscript copy of the Koran, written probably in the twelfth century in eastern Iran in a rather simple, late Kufic hand, has one notable peculiarity: the whole of Sura 112, the profession of God’s Unity, is written in unusually interlaced, powerful letters, and on another page, the word Muhammad rasul Allah, “Muhammad is the […]
Does the Big Screen Miss the Prophet?
Love and respect for the Prophet is part of the faith of Islam. There are so many representations of the Prophet in art and literature that it takes a voluminous space to chronicle them all. Resistance to the musical and literary representations from the Muslim orthodoxy has never been as vociferous as it has been […]
Compelled to be Perfect
She sat in front of me; the dejection in her eyes mixed with something else – confusion, bewilderment. She still didn’t know where she went wrong, how she went wrong. She tried to do everything right, the way he wanted it. She tried hard, a bit too hard perhaps. She had been married for two […]
New Flavours for Old Recipes
Take a journey back in time more than 2700 years to a royal banquet in the palace at Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire. As you arrive, the scent of lilies and roses fills the air. Musicians play harps and pipes, sing songs and recite poems. You snack on fresh pistachios and walnuts as you […]
What is Islamic About Islamic Arts?
I was slightly disappointed at having not been able to go to Jaipur to attend India’s most reputed literary festival, especially when I read a report in the Hindu about an open forum featuring writers Ahdaf Soueif, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Selma Dabbagh, Jonathan Shainin and William Dalrymple. In the forum, Moroccan author Tahar Ben […]
Benazir: The Question of Women and Power
“When I first became prime minister I wanted to show a woman can be as good as a man. I think it is important to be a woman because woman brings nurturing aspects” -Benazir Bhutto Even five years after Benazir Bhutto- the first ever woman to become the prime minister of a modern Islamic nation- […]
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