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...
COMMENT The Caliph of Damascus celebrated the overthrow of the French king yesterday. Bashar al-Assad looked quite at home, standing in his pale blue suit, wearing those inevitable Baathist sunglasses, occasionally clapping the precision drill of the French regiments in front of him, some of whom spent...
SC FOR 19/5Dn By Mass The entries marked "?" have something in common suggested by the unclued answers forming the puzzle's title Across 1 ? (4) 3 Stocky in build (8) 9 Aquatic bird (5)...
In Arabian Nights By Tahir Shah DOUBLEDAY Pounds 12.99 (424pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 There comes a time when even travel writers no longer feel like travelling; they return home, exhausted, to explore their roots. Tahir Shah, who has described his exotic adventures...
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...
One of the key questions in the US presidential race is what will happen if US troops leave Iraq. Olivier Roy, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, concludes: "Al-Qaeda will not take power and establish an Islamic state [in Iraq or anywhere...
Annals of the caliphs' kitchens; Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's tenth-century Baghdadi cookbook. Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq, al-Muzaffar ibn Nasr. Trans. by Nawal Nasrallah. BRILL 2007 867 pages $195.00 Hardcover Islamic history and civilization; v.70 TX725 ...
There is a role for the Iran-led axis in every crisis zone in the Middle East, including Iraq, the Gaza Strip, Somalia, Algeria, etc. The Syrian military intelligence, headed by Assad's brother-in-law 'Assef Shawkat, is said to be working with al-Qaeda which upholds a Neo-Salafi ideology...
NAJAF, Iraq AFP — The dearest wish of Reza Moussaoui, an Iranian Shiite pilgrim who crossed the border to attend weekend Ashura rituals in Iraq's shrine city of Najaf, is to be able to die. His eyes filled with tears, Reza stands next to a mound of travel...
BAGHDAD AFP — Tens of thousands of Iraqis streamed home on Sunday from Ashura ceremonies in Karbala that were hailed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as a sign of stability after they passed relatively peacefully. Around two million Shiite pilgrims descended on Karbala, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south...
KARBALA, Iraq AFP — Shiite pilgrims in their thousands joined bloody parades on Saturday in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, slicing their scalps with swords and knives to commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein. The rite of "tatbir", which leaves its followers drenched in blood, is the climax...
BEIRUT AFP — Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah chief and one of Israel's most wanted men, appeared in public for the first time in more than a year to attend a Shiite religious event in the Lebanese capital on Saturday. Surrounded by dozens of bodyguards, Nasrallah walked through the...
KARBALA, Iraq AFP — Millions of Shiites across Iraq on Saturday joined ceremonies marking the climax of annual Ashura rituals, marred by attacks that killed 17 people and a bloody uprising by doomsday cultists. Around two million people thronged the streets of the shrine city of Karbala in...
KARBALA, Iraq AFP — Shiites in their hundreds of thousands crowded the streets of Karbala on Friday, many beating their own backs with metal chains as the annual Ashura ceremonies began building towards a peak. The shrine city south of Baghdad was heavily guarded as devotees from across...
KARBALA, Iraq AFP — As tens of thousands of Shiites gathered in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Thursday for the festival of Ashura, a suicide attack on a ceremony elsewhere in the country marred the build-up to the event. The suicide bomber blew himself up outside a...
KARBALA, Iraq AFP — Tens of thousands of pilgrims from across the Muslim world, dressed mostly in black, thronged the streets of Karbala in Iraq on Thursday, two days ahead of Shiite Islam's holiest day. Many joined sombre processions during which men and even some boys, accompanied by...
BAGHDAD -- Nine American soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new offensive to root out al-Qaida in Iraq fighters holed up in districts north of the capital, the U.S. military reported Wednesday. The losses came as many militants fled U.S. and Iraqi forces...
The Army intends to remain the preeminent landpower on earth, dominant across the full spectrum of operations, now and in the future, to meet our enduring contract with the American people to defend our freedom. The Army's modernization strategy is designed to meet the Army's current and future equipping requirements....
SYRACUSE - Say 1031 to history buffs, and they visualize the collapse of the Moorish Caliphate of Cordoba, the capture of Edessa by Byzantine general George Maniaces, and the ascension of Henry I to the throne of France. Say 1031 to a real-estate developer, and he or she thinks...
Taravat Talepasand's first solo exhibition featured small egg-tempera panel paintings that revisit the techniques and style of the Persian miniaturists who practiced during the time of the Safavid caliphs (15021722), with perhaps just a bit more emphasis on the modeling of figures. Of the ten jewel-like paintings and delicate graphite...
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