MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Some of Islam’s historic sites in Mecca, possibly including a home of the Prophet Mohammad, are under threat from Saudi real estate developers and Wahhabi Muslims who view them as promoting idolatry. Sami Angawi, an expert on the region’s Islamic architecture, said 1,400-year-old buildings from the early Islamic period risk …
Please accept my apologies if you had problems accessing Mahmood’s Den. The server is getting heavy hits and I’ve just maxed out Apache’s configuration as well as MySQL’s. I’m afraid they won’t be able to cope too well until the interest subsides a bit. Nevertheless, thank you wired.com, the Guardian, the Times AND the Financial …
I was reading an article on wired.com this morning about video blogs, and guess which link on that article led me back to THIS vlog!! 🙂 big grin… biiiig grin! Welcome, if you’re just come in from wired.com.
Whenever I hear the word democracy, I shiver. Since the term became a rallying cry in Western foreign policy, it has come to mean a set of priorities and values that are essentially American and European. As such, for many of us here in the Middle East, democracy has become dated as a philosophy that …
456kb • 20s • get Quicktime If you thought that the Ghutra – the Arab head-dress – is only used to protect the wearer’s head from the sun, you’re missing the whole point. The Arab has adapted it’s use to modern technology as well as the traditional uses…