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A Week in Art & Culture
(16/03/2006 -
23/03/2006)
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By The IOL Art & Culture Team
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Mar.
23, 2006
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Imam
Mosque in Isfahan, Iran
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In
pictures: The palaces of Iran
23/03/2006
Iranian
Ben Sarjhi has been photographing the architecture of his homeland for many
years...
Source:
BBC News
Muslim
Girl Loses Lords Fight Over Jilbab
23/03/2006
The
House of Lords yesterday overturned an appeal court ruling that a Muslim
teenager's human rights were violated when she was banned from wearing a
head-to-toe Islamic dress to school…
Source:
The Guardian
Controversy
Over Christ Movie in Egypt
23/03/2006
An
intended attempt to produce a movie on the life of Jesus Christ (peace and
blessings be upon him) has stirred a hot debate between Al-Azhar scholars who
vehemently oppose the depiction of any Prophet and Christian activists who
considered the rejection an interference in their private affairs…
Source:
Islam Online
Warning
to Chatroom Users after Libel Award for Man Labelled a Nazi
23/03/2006
A
political argument that erupted in a remote corner of cyberspace and descended
into vicious name-calling could lead to a spate of libel actions by contributors
to internet message boards, the man at the centre of the case claimed
yesterday…
Source:
The Guardian
Radiohead
Singer 'Snubbed Blair'
22/03/2006
Radiohead
frontman Thom Yorke has said he turned down an invitation to meet the UK Prime
Minister Tony Blair to discuss climate change…
Source:
BBC News
Drawing
the Line between Individuals and Collectives
23/03/2006
The
title of Magali Katra's second solo exhibition of paintings at the Gemmayzeh
gallery Espace SD is a play on words. "Pret-a-Penser" refers to
fashion, as in "pret-a-porter" or "ready to wear," though it
also suggests thought, as in "ready to think."…
Source:
The Daily Star
Hovering
between this Life and the Next
22/03/2006
Naguib
Mahfouz is by far the most internationally acclaimed writer
from the Middle East. Although the odds have favored Syrian poet Adonis and
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk in recent years,…
Source:
The Daily Star
Erasing
Whiteness
22/03/2006
In
the realm of popular media, the gender battle is on again. If Phyllis Chesler
didn't get your attention in The Death of Feminism, with her rage against the
movement's unwillingness to face up to sexism in the Muslim world,…
Source:
The Nation
Aleppo
Begins its Stint as Arab World's Capital of Islamic Culture
21/03/2006
Hundreds
of Arab and foreign personalities gathered in the Syrian city of Aleppo Saturday
for the opening ceremony at the start of its year as the Arab world's capital of
Islamic culture for 2006…
Source:
The Daily Star
Top
Dutch Museum Opening Delayed
21/03/2006
The
reopening of Amsterdam's world-famous Rijksmuseum has been postponed by a year
for environmental checks on its renovation plans…
Source:
BBC News
Stars
Appear at Anti-war Benefit
21/03/2006
REM's Michael Stipe, musician Moby and actress
Susan Sarandon have appeared at a benefit concert in New York urging the
withdrawal of US troops from Iraq...
Source:
BBC News
Afro-Asia
Organization Chooses Saffarzadeh as Muslim Woman of 2005
17/03/2006
Organization
of Afro-Asian Writers on Friday chose Iranian poetess, writer, and prominent
university professor Tahereh Saffarzadeh as the most prominent woman in the
Islamic World and at the international scene in 2005…
Source:
IRNA
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