The pickpockets of Barcelona are justly famed for their ability to extract whatever they want from anywhere; why are they suddenly stealing cheap cellphones in preference to laden purses? What does this have to do with Gaudi's fantastic unfinished cathedral, with mega-yachts, with the long-ago...
KHARTOUM AFP — In Sudan, gum arabic is "manna" from heaven and a key ingredient in iconic brands of globalisation despite US sanctions on this African country listed as a state sponsor of terror in Washington. Hands covered in balls of see-through resin, Issam Siddig is categorical: gum...
Teresa AlfaroVelcamp, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Maps, appendixes, bibliography, index, 272 pp.; paperback $24.95. John Tofik Karam, Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Glossary, bibliography, 214 pp.;...
Joanna Kavenna's debut novel, 'Inglorious', is a mordantly witty tale of a modern woman's descent into the abyss. She talks to Suzi Feay about turning from unpublishable failure to prizewinning writer '... "Dear Viracocha, Buddha, Osiris, Isis, Zeus, Allah, Jehovah, Shiva, Humbaba, Zabalon and the rest, What...
MOGADISHU AFP — A senior Somali Islamist leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, on Tuesday rejected a three-month truce reached between Mogadishu and its main political foes at UN-sponsored peace talks in Djibouti a day earlier. "I do not believe that the outcome of this conference will have any...
Two liberal theologians have taken Turkey's most famous Islamic clothes designer to court for exploiting religion, in a case highlighting the unease some feel at the ostentation of the country's new conservative high society. Nicknamed "Allah's tailor" by the press, Mustafa Karaduman long ago earned the odium...
Two liberal theologians have taken Turkey's most famous Islamic clothes designer to court for exploiting religion, in a case highlighting the unease some feel at the ostentation of the country's new conservative high society. Nicknamed "Allah's tailor" by the press, Mustafa Karaduman long ago earned the odium...
Two liberal theologians have taken Turkey's most famous Islamic clothes designer to court for exploiting religion, in a case highlighting the unease some feel at the ostentation of the country's new conservative high society. Dubbed "Allah's tailor" by the press, Mustafa Karaduman long ago earned the odium...
According to oman news: sultan qaboos bin said has sent a cable of condolences to sheikh khalifa bin zayid al nahayyan , president of the u.a.e on the death of sheikh nassir bin zayid al nahayyan. The sultan expressed his sincere condolences to sheikh khalifa and family...
According to Oman News: Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates UAE received here today, Sayyid Harib bin Thuwaini al Said, who conveyed condolences of Sultan Qaboos bin Said to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed and al Nahyan Family on the death ...
WASHINGTON AFP — Al-Qaeda Wednesday claimed in Internet statements to have carried out a suicide attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad which left at least six dead, SITE monitoring services said. Monday's attack was said to be in revenge for the publication in Danish newspapers of cartoons...
Once upon a time on the island of Java there was an old woman who was so poor, she lived in a hut of bamboo and straw. She owned nothing but a pot. The woman collected wood in the forest to sell for rice. In this way she stayed alive....
By IsraelNationalNews.com A Palestinian Authority television program produced by Hamas, the ruling regime in Gaza, encourages Arab Muslim children to strive for the conquest of Israeli cities such as Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ashdod. The puppet characters in the program,...
'Farid Fendil believed he had to save his family name before his religious peers. But a man cannot gamble with the hand of fate or oppose the will of Allah. This truth, he neglected to honor. And so begins the story of his daughter Noora, Light of the Desert.' --...
The 5-minute Interview Vieux Farka Toure Musician The guitar virtuoso, 26, is from Niafunke in Mali. His first album, 'Vieux Farka Toure', was released by World Village last year. He is playing the Jazz Cafe in London next Saturday....
The 5-minute Interview Vieux Farka Toure Musician The guitar virtuoso, 26, is from Niafunke in Mali. His first album, 'Vieux Farka Toure', was released by World Village last year. He is playing the Jazz Cafe in London next Saturday....
The leader of Somalia's jihadist insurgent group, and the man believed to be the head of al-Qa'ida operations in East Africa, has been killed by an American airstrike. Aden Hashi Ayro died early yesterday morning when up to four United States aircraft bombed a house in the...
RAVENNA, Ohio, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- In his explosive new book, "Bleeding for Allah: Why Islam will Conquer the Free World. What Americans Need to Know" (published by AuthorHouse -- http://www.authorhouse.com/), Markus Aurelius scrutinizes Islam from its very birth. The Koran, holy book of more than one billion people...
You sport a huge beard and a towel on your head and in the name of Allah you try to bring down the computer infrastructure on which the world depends. You are, in contemporary argot, a 'cyber-terrorist'. You wear a button-down shirt and chinos, and in the name of turning...
DUBAI AFP — Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri criticised Muslims for failing to support Islamist insurgencies in Iraq and elsewhere in a new audiotape posted Tuesday on the Internet. Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant also blasted Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas over their reported readiness to consider a peace...
Articles 2008-04-22
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