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In case you missed it, this is the list of the “Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries”, you should really take a look. Of course, the list was compiled by “a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders.”If anyone hasn’t already read any of these (like me) add them [...]
Want to have breast implants but worried they may not be so pleasing to God? Wondering if the marketing campaign devised to boost your business is spiritually sound? If you are a Shia looking for guidance, what you may find useful is your very own online ayatollah - a sort of electronic agony aunt with [...]
Rubbish dumps of Oxyrhynchus, a city that flourished after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. reveals texts of Trojan Wars and early Christian gospels that do not appear in the New Testament. Originally developed by NASA scientists and used to map the surface of Mars, multispectral imaging was successfully applied [...]
“Some conservative families don’t allow their daughters to meet strangers. But if you meet in cyberspace, technically you are not breaking any religious or cultural norms as you are not physically alone with that person.” Arab and Muslim online surfers still feel embarrassed about cyber-searches for a spouse. Many of those who had success were [...]
Update: I regret that I had to remove the photos from Flickr for copyright issues. You can still view the photos and more here: http://www.palestinecostumearchive.org/
A sample of Costumes from my homeland - Palestine. A photo collection I gathered from the net can be viewed here.
Click on photo for a large view.
Palestinian child’s quilt
Bethlehem wedding [...]
17-year-old boy and 19-year-old girl, both UAE nationals, were each sentenced to spend one month in jail. The teenagers were exchanging “indecent” pictures through their cellphones and sending pornographic pictures through email. The Dubai Court of First Instance heard that one of the girl’s friends was jealous of the relationship she had with her male [...]
Nancy Ajram in town? That means: sexual harassment, theft, excessive alcohol consumption resulting in violence, people fainting; all took place during the concert in Marrakech.
The mayor of Marrakech in Morocco has announced that Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram will not be permitted to hold any future concerts in the city to avoid the reoccurrence of any [...]
Pleasure marriages, outlawed under Saddam Hussein, have begun to flourish again. “Al-Zaidi hopes to soon finalize his third muta’a, or “pleasure marriage,” with a green-eyed neighbor. This time, he talks about it openly and with obvious relish. Even so, he says, he probably still won’t tell his wife.”
At least Saddam did one right thing!
Pope Benedict XVI dressed in a Nazi uniform, is nothing compared to what is posted on Arab internet sites of Muslim Ulema (scholars), old and contemporary, of photographs and articles. Despite that, we did not hear of an Arab or Islamic state asked its judicial authorities to go after these sites. Whereas, Rome investigating magistrate [...]
Will the $16 million, 3,465-square metre Arab American museum of brightly coloured mosaics and interactive exhibits change the 9/11 misunderstanding and suspicions.
The Financial Times says: “People of Arab descent living in the US are better educated and wealthier than the average American of non-Arab descent. That is one surprising conclusion drawn from data collected by [...]
Saudi singer Hisham Abdel Rahman poses by his ‘Star Academy’ award upon his arrival at Jiddah airport, Saudi Arabia, in this file picture dated Saturday April 16, 2005. Religious authorities briefly detained Saudi singer Hisham Abdel Rahman, made famous in the Arab World by winning this year’s ‘Star Academy’ reality TV show for causing an [...]
If calling the method for determining the beginning of Ramadan and Eid “primitive” gets 275 lashes, how many would you get for questioning woman’s political rights?
From the Arab News:
RIYADH, 21 March 2005 — The case of a Saudi writer who was sentenced by a Shariah court in Riyadh to 275 lashes and four months imprisonment [...]
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