mra Babic, the newly elected mayor of the Bosnian town of Visoko, is the first mayor to wear hijab. Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:36AM Islam is very clear regarding the woman. It reserves for her a place in the public life and all those who interpret it correct know that this is the way it is.” Amra Babic, mayor of …
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Encyclopedia of the Middle East Saladin
Saladin – Salahuddin Ayyubi (Yusuf Salah al din ibn Ayyub) (Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب; Kurdish: سهلاحهدین ئهیوبی Selah'edine Eyubi; c. 1137 – March 4, 1193), a Kurdish Sultan, known to Europeans as Saladin, especially medieval Europe, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the liberator of Jerusalem (Al-Quds) from the third Crusade. His name means "righteousness of the faith." Saladin is …
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Lightning is near-instantaneous discharge of 200 million to a billion volts that accompanies thunderstorm activity. You can't outmaneuver a storm, so be alert and act early to seek shelter. Different forms of lightning. Direct hit – most often occurs in the open. Splash – occurs when lightning hits another object (tree, building). The current seeks the path of least resistance, and may "jump" …
Read More »Haram expansion to house 1.5m worshippers – arabnews
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Monday 4 June 2012 Last Update 5 June 2012 4:57 pm Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency for the Two Holy Mosques, yesterday inspected the progress of work on the largest expansion of the Grand Mosque in Makkah and said the new facility would accommodate 1.5 million worshippers. He commended Custodian of the …
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Ten years ago today the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush Administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eight Americans were killed. More than …
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I hope I live to see the day where a humanitarian hero is referred to as the Christian Edna Adan. Who's Edna Adan? The short answer: she's a nurse-midwife, founder of a hospital bearing her name, who's saving and changing the lives of tens of thousands of people in Somaliland — a place not even recognized as a country. She's …
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