Articles tagged with: freedom
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Friday, 20 Jul, 2012
Calligraphy has always been a part of the development of written language. Calligraphy by Muslim artists who used the Arab alphabet used to be considered one of the highest forms of visual art. Practiced from Morocco to China, history reveals that Arabic calligraphy has not been limited to representations of passages from the Qur’an, but was also used in other types of writing, such as poetry, stories, royal decrees, and proverbs.
Recently, many new, autonomous thematic elements—such...
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Tuesday, 28 Feb, 2012
A few days before Christmas last year, and just after another wave of deadly rioting had erupted in Cairo following the first round of parliamentary elections, an Egyptian newspaper ran a front page splash that was as impressive as anything produced recently by a major Western publication. Behind a stark red, two-inch high headline shouting “Liars” was an enormous photo showing Egyptian military police assaulting a helpless girl.
The picture was taken during a clash in Downtown Cairo....
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Monday, 16 Jan, 2012
This weekend, Tunisia celebrated the one year anniversary of its revolution. The event was commemorated by the gathering of thousands of people along the capital’s main stree...
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Tuesday, 20 Sep, 2011
General Bilal, as the leader of the Nationalist Party of Egypt, has a strong military background but--given the recent political upheaval--a limited popularity among Egyptian...
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Tuesday, 15 Feb, 2011
“The time to buy is when there’s blood on the street,” the eighteenth-century banker Nathan Rothschild famously advised. Yet where Rothschild made a fortune during the ch...
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