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...predecessor to the European lute; a qanum (played by Xauen Music founder and director of CCOE, Hicham Chami), a trapezoidal stringed instrument akin to the zither; and a riqq (Karim Nagi), a handheld percussion instrument similar to the tambourine. Accompanying the instrumentalists were two vocalists, Youssef Kassab and Albert Agha...
...beauty salon. There's an international buffet restaurant, the Café Zarnegar, and, incongruously, an Asian specialty restaurant, the Silk Route, which offers Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian and Thai cuisine. As you'd expect, none of this comes cheap. Standard room rates start at $250 a night. But the Agha Khan Foundation for Economic Development, the Serena's main backer, is betting that guests will happily pay a premium for an oasis of luxury amid the rubble. Says spokesman Aly Mawji: "Mainstream tourism is still years away but we hope the hotel will encourage some more adventurous travelers." Or perhaps that...
...places of seeming comfort. Musing on Sri Lanka, he draws upon the words of Michael Ondaatje, not a colonizer surveying foreign ground, but a homesick exile looking back on the world he misses. Reading to a New York audience soon after Sept. 11, he shares the work of Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri poet who has lived with civil war and terror all his life. Bringing a young republic a larger sense of history, and so of suffering, is not the least of the achievements of this sober and highly dignified book...
...Pakistanis all over the world expressed their desire to adopt orphans. It was as if the whole country had suddenly changed from a self-interested, disunited nation into a warmhearted cohesive force facing the disaster. That made me realize that in any hour of need, Pakistan shall not fail. Agha Ali Murtaza Lahore, Pakistan...
...expressed their desire to adopt orphans. It was as if the whole country had suddenly changed from a self-interested, disunited nation into a warmhearted, cohesive force facing the disaster. That made me realize that in any hour of need, my country, my nation, my Pakistan shall not fail. Agha Ali Murtaza Lahore, Pakistan The west perceives us Muslims in general and Pakistanis in particular as terrorists. Catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina and the Kashmir earthquake can serve as eye-openers. In both cases, governmental bureaucratic structures failed terribly. But if you saw TV coverage after the quake, you could...