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U.S. experts on the Middle East have been concerned for years that the House of Saud might be vulnerable, not just to opponents who consider the monarchy an anachronism but also to Islamic fundamentalists who would, if they could, turn the country into a theocracy that would make the present...
Included among the speakers were Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf, Sally Finestone, acting director of Harvard Hillel, and Pamela Taylor, member of the Harvard University Islamic Society and a student at the Divinity School.
Harsh as it may seem, al-Ebraheem's assessment is common. Across the ideological spectrum -- from those who regularly opposed the ruling elite's every move to some of the elite's most prominent members -- the echo startles. "Ours was a culture of dependency," says Tareq al-Suwaidan, a leader...
Aside from the Islamic world, where laws based on fundamentalist strictures often forbid access to any entertainment, there seem to be very few places where that is not the case. Even in secular Iraq, teenagers jam the half a dozen or so little shops in downtown Baghdad that sell pirated...
Last week the new government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, which had promised to institute a legal system based on Shariat law, decided to seek a new interpretation of the law from Islamic scholars. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a federal minister, announced that the strikers' "misgivings" would be remedied...