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Welcome Ramadan this year with Istibaneh in Beirut
July 22, 2011

Welcome Ramadan this year with Istibaneh in Beirut

What is the "Istibaneh"? On the 29th of Sha’aban, the people of Beirut and the people of the heights surrounding the city used to gather on the shores of Al-Awzai, Ramla…

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Why was Osama Bin Laden really buried at sea?
May 02, 2011

Why was Osama Bin Laden really buried at sea?

I woke up this morning with a flood of news about Osama Bin Laden's death on facebook, twitter, google reader, buzz and so forth. With all the celebrations and the worldwide d…

9/11 Afghanistan Bin Laden
Happy Eid
September 09, 2010

Happy Eid

I would like to wish all my readers, on Behalf of all the Mind Soup authors, Eid Fitr Mubarak and May the guidance and blessings of God be with you and your families. Dar al Fatwa …

Arabic Beirut Eid
French tycoon to pay fines for veiled women
July 17, 2010

French tycoon to pay fines for veiled women

GUARDIAN : A French property tycoon enraged at his government's plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public has promised a fund of €1 million ($1.4 million) to help…

Algeria arab Arabs
Robert Fisk: CNN was wrong about Ayatollah Fadlallah
July 11, 2010

Robert Fisk: CNN was wrong about Ayatollah Fadlallah

The following is a repost of Fisk's article from The Independent  on Sunday. He is talking about the incidents of CNN senior editor Octavia Nasr and the British Ambassador to L…

CNN freedom of speech Hizbollah
September 21, 2009

Muntazer al-Zaidi: Why I threw the shoe

I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and th…

Arabic Bush Christians
Bidding farewell to the most beautiful month of all...
September 20, 2009

Bidding farewell to the most beautiful month of all...

Ramadan 2009 around the world - Photo Gallery On August 21st, hundreds of millions of Muslims started fasting for a month. They started to abstain from eating or drinking from dawn…

Bangladesh China food
September 19, 2009

Obama extends greetings on Muslim holiday

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is extending greetings to Muslims celebrating Eid al-Fitr (ayd ahl-FIH'-tur), which marks the end of the holy monthlong fasting time known …

Eid greetings Hillary Clinton
September 03, 2009

President Obama's Ramadan Greetings

No American president has ever done this before, i can honestly say this made me feel really good as a muslim.

greetings Muslim Obama
Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs over swine flu
April 29, 2009

Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs over swine flu

CAIRO – Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precautionary measure against the spread of swine flu even though no cases have been report…

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