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PHOTO ESSAY: Of Kitties and Men
As part of a new series at KABOBfest, we will now be featuring photo essays from around the world. Showcasing powerful images caught by talented young photographers or by the watchful eyes of activists or those just happened to be in the right place at the right time, we want these photos to speak for [...]
Al-Azhar Supports Israeli Apartheid
It seems as though al-Azhar hadn’t gotten enough ridicule when the Grand Shaykh of the well-respected and renowned Islamic University al-Azhar, located in Egypt, admonished a young girl for wearing the niqab and subsequently stating that the body covering, which only reveals the eyes, must be purged from Egypt. Now it seems that the scholars of Islam over at al-Azhar are trying to one-up themselves.
Hearts, minds… but no political will?
As much as President Obama’s speech in Cairo has been branded as one “to the Muslim world”–whatever that might mean–it is certainly a speech whose audience spanned across a much larger swath of the world. In terms of signaling substantive policy changes for the peoples of that world, there is not much to count on. [...]
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