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In Madinah, praying for Myanmar
IF Makkah represents the majesty and glory of God, Madinah is all about His love and mercy. Madinah embraces and welcomes you like some long lost friend, with its endless shower of blessings and benedictions enveloping you. This is my ...
Retracing Abraham’s footsteps
Magnificent. Majestic. Magical. How do you even begin to voice what you feel as you lose yourself in the sea of humanity, perpetually swirling and surging around the first House of God? All that you know is you are in ...
When Hindus and Muslims lived in harmony
AT a time when the Muslims are being hunted like animals on the benign watch of the BJP, two brave new books revisit a time when they ruled the country. The Hindus and Muslims lived in harmony under Muslim rulers, ...
Some are more equal in new India
Some elitist clubs and hotels in British India, the last surviving bastions of the Raj, until not long ago famously proclaimed: “Dogs and Indians Not Allowed!”
India and Pakistan: 70 degrees of separation
INDIA and Pakistan have been celebrating their Independence from the British and separation 70 years ago. Farewells are never easy; the stronger and older the bonds the more painful is the separation. Not surprisingly, the Partition had been so overwhelming ...
Reducing Middle East to a videogame
Can you really call them games, the kind the young play these days? Growing up my son relished playing those violent videogames on his Sony PlayStation. Since most of these games originate in the land of the free, they are ...
Jack Shaheen and Hollywood Arabs
IN the passing of Jack Shaheen, the distinguished Arab American author, academic and lifelong crusader for truth, the Arab world has lost a true champion and voice of reason. Born to Lebanese Christian immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, Shaheen dedicated ...
BJP’s endgame, divided opposition
Mayawati cut a rather forlorn figure as she angrily stomped out of the Indian parliament. In a statement later, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief declared she had quit the Rajya Sabha after being “gagged” by the BJP on the ...
Losing Middle East, one great city at a time
Mosul is free. It has been liberated at last, just as the rest of Iraq had been by the same coalition of the willing. Congratulations all around. So what if the ancient city had to be wrecked, to ...
Parallel universe of Hindutva and Zionism
WITH Narendra Modi’s “groundbreaking visit” to Israel, India seems to have traversed the distance of 70 years and a long history of standing by the Palestinians in the blink of an eye.
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