In popular imagination, the word Timbuktu is a trip of three syllables to the ends of the earth. Today this West African city is a slumbering and decrepit citadel at the southern edge of the Sahara, in Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world. Yet it is here that some of the most astonishing developments in African intellectual …

Let’s face it: Qaddafi was a failure. He was looking for unity in all the wrong places: Arab unity, African unity, “third-world” unity. In his doomed quest for unity, Qaddafi was a failed idealist. “Arab”-ness is just another nationalism, another form of empty identity politics. “African-ness” and “Third Worldness” are no better. Africa has two thousand different languages and cultures. The …

Slain leader's body kept in cold storage before secret burial as UN calls video of his last moments "disturbing". Libya's National Transitional Council has delayed the burial for Muammar Gaddafi in order to arrange a secret location and allow for an investigation into his death, officials say. On Friday, as videos continued to surface showing the fugitive deposed leader being captured alive …

Introduction: “It is clear that we should be self-sufficient and not rely on debt. That we should live more simply, consume more wisely, think of generations to come, and wonder what desires we want to plant in children’s hearts…..Bringing decency back into debates, normalcy into pay rates (checking greed), and ancient truths into temples is going to take a fight.” …

  Dr. Zakir Naik, is a dynamic international orator on Islam and Comparative Religion. He is a driving spirit forgetting worldwide acclaim for the proper presentation, understanding and clarification of Islam, as well as removing misconceptions about Islam A talk by Dr zakir Naik. To know more about women's right in islam       Women right's in islam : Modernising …