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Zarqawi, born Ahmad Nazzal Fadil al Khalayilah (his nom de guerre is an adaptation of Zarqa, his industrial hometown in northern Jordan) has been engaged in a long-running struggle with Jordan's King Abdullah II. Their duel began immediately after Abdullah ascended the throne in 1999, when he freed...
A former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister turned political prisoner told a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night that Islam and democracy are compatible ideologies. The charismatic Anwar Ibrahim criticized the “democracy deficit” of many Muslim nations, but also questioned the wisdom of spreading...
The surge in attacks comes fourteen years after the fall of Somalia's last effective central government. Much of the country is split between warlords, clan elders and Saudi-sponsored Islamic clerics. Peace talks in neighboring Kenya led, last year, to the election of a "transitional federal government." But that...
A commemoration in honor of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s death 10 years ago spurred a heated debate about his legacy last night. The evening, organized by Harvard Hillel, began with people sharing their personal thoughts about Rabin and a collective chant of the Mourner?...
In the 398 pages that comprise Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, “Shalimar the Clown,” he carries us spellbound from Hinduism to Nazism, Krishna to Allah, and Kashmir to California. Along the way, he examines and shatters traditional notions of love, vengeance, nationalism...