Author Archive: Infoeditor
Turko-Persian Spring of Islamic Art
Orhan Pamuk’s ‘My Name is Red’ is a refrabicated history (history told through the medium of novel) about the commissioning of caricaturists to illustrate classical works. The book narrates a time in the history of Turkey, namely the 16th century, which was kept apart by the avid focus at that time on painting. Sultan Murat […]
‘Blind’ Justice
The Tale of an Activist China has of late been in the news. Predictably, this time too, human rights violation has made this steadily growing country newsworthy. The epicentre of the issue is Chen Guangcheng, a 40-year-old blind lawyer and activist in Shandong province. Chen was leading a battle against the province administration led by […]
Case diary : ‘Bring her back on the track’
His demand had nothing extraordinary about it. ‘You ought to change her. To bring her back on the track.’ Usually, counsellors are expected to mend the ways of their problem case. Like detectives, they ought to search for the clue which leads them to the villainous element of behaviour which prevents the problem case from […]
“Ghostbuster” Writer, Actor Harold Ramis Dies
Comedy actor, director and writer Harold Ramis, died on Monday at his suburban Chicago home after a four-year battle with an autoimmune disease, his talent agency said. Ramis, aged 69, died early Monday morning of complications from vasculitis, which causes inflammation and damage to blood vessels, said Chris Day, a spokesman at United Talent Agency. […]
Arab Summit Rejects Israel as ‘Jewish State’
Arab leaders, on Wednesday, called for a political solution to the conflict in Syria and backed the Palestinians in refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Israel threatened to destabilize the US-Palestinian peace talks, said the Arab leaders in a statement issued at the conclusion of the two day Arab League summit in Bayan […]
Jesus: A Reading on Islam
Water There is Jesus walking on water. ‘And he was asked: ‘How can you walk on water?’ He replied: ‘Through certainty of faith.’ He was told: ‘We too have certain faith.’ Jesus asked: ‘Do you believe that stones, mud and gold are all equal in your sight?’ ‘No,’ they replied. He said (or I think […]
The Blend of Europe and Islam
Intercultural sharing between two communities is nowhere more explicit than in the cultural products of a region where two groups lived together for a long period of time. In art and architecture, we tend to fuse two streams of influences together as in Indo-Sarasan, Indo-Persian etc. In an era which was characterized by mutual rivalry […]
Sacrificing the Self
Review on Semih Kaplanoglu’s ‘Yumurta’ A film structured on a loose storyline that has a running time of an hour and a half does not appear to offer much by way of a spellbinding cinematic effect. Yes, we want frames to get married to one another and lead a logical narrative life from the moment […]
With Titus Burckhardt at the Tomb of Ibn ‘Arabī
In the fall of 1966, the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the American University of Beirut provided the possibility for me to meet Titus Burckhardt, not on the soil of Europe as had happened often before, but for the first time within the boundaries of the Arab world. Hearing the adhan, […]
Muslim women face degrading treatments due to wearing headscarves
Muslim women face second grade treatments all around the globe due to their headscarves. Whether it be forbidding entry to schools, colleges and job interviews or physical and psychological abuses at work places, on the streets or at home, women are having a tough time because of their faithfulness to faith. A survey whether Muslim […]
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