Author Archive: Infoeditor
Ibn Battuta: In Frames and Pages
‘If I am to die, let it be on the roads to Makkah’ Ibn Battutta speaks as a young man. But to speak these words to us now, the great traveller needs the crutch of Ben Kingsly’s assertive voice. We hear the Academy won actor giving voice-over and, thereby, credence to Ibn Battutta. The context […]
Ramadan in the Farthest North
Disembark at the fog-shrouded, mountain-rimmed, Arctic-gateway harbor of Tromsø, Norway, walk along the cobbled main street with its wooden homes and shops painted bright reds, blues and yellows, and take a left just before the pet shop. There, next to the Natural Medicine Center, you will find Alnor Senter, a simple square building. The former […]
Expo of Imam Ali Paintings at Tehran
An exhibition of rare paintings of Imam Ali is attracting scores of people to Tehran, the capital of Iran during the current fall of the holy Ramadan. Tehran’s Shokuh Gallery hosts the event, the first ever such venture to showcase the portraits of Ali, a very important figure in the history of Islam, especially for […]
Nature and Environment in The Light of Quran
The emergence of humans on earth could not be viewed as sheer accidental as we look at things from the Quranic perspective. According to the Quran the creation of man is, as a matter of fact, the culmination of a well-defined divine scheme. Going further the Quran says that the entire Universe has been created […]
On the Future of Islamic Intellectualism
Interview with Dr. Syed Farid Al Attas Dr. Syed Farid Al Attas is the Associate Professor in Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. In an interview with Muhsin Parari, Dr Farid Al Attas speaks on several issues that matter: the east-west dichotomy, decolonization of Knowledge, Islam, the Project of Islamisation of knowledge, […]
When Istanbul Sings; We Hear Many Istanbuls
Turkish music is irresistibly intoxicating. The more you listen to it, the more it binds you inside. Once you begin to indulge in its soothing pleasure, it engages you to endless entrapment. Here, modernity cohabits with tradition as in the historic city of Istanbul, where a symbiosis between the east and the west is sharply […]
Muhammara: the Taste of Aleppo
Bilad al-Sham aka Sham aka Syria is where the Ottaman taste still lingers in our tongue. The country is also known as Levant and Levantine Cuisine is part of the lore of foodies all over the world. Mezze or the West Asian small dishes; Tabbouleh the famed Arabian Salad; hummus-the West Asian dip (Tasty mixture […]
Her Song, Her Voice and Her Landscapes
What is the difference between when she sings and when he sings? What is the difference between her song and his song?, or, in other words, the difference between when she sings songs she has made and when she sings the songs he has made?. Had change of pronouns been merely a linguistic issue, the […]
Lubna Agha: Inheritance from a Loss
Visit the website of Lubna Agha, an honored Pakistani painter based in America (the link is listed towards the end of this article); you can read these lines on the Homepage: Amongst the foremost contemporary American-Pakistani artists is Lubna Agha, whose images challenge the immovable qualities of traditional Islamic art and artifacts to provide a […]
Alim’s Combat Linguistics: The Struggle for Equanimity
Dr H Samy Alim is a linguist or combat linguist, to use the apt phrase employed by Geneva Smitherman, Dr. G University Distinguished Professor of English and Director who wrote the foreword to the Roc Mic Right, Alim’s third book on the Hip-Hop. Combat linguists always search for the ruptures in the official pedagogy or […]
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