December, 2009

• 11 December

  A black future Without destroying the Earth, the Large Hadron Collider might help humans explore the cosmos, By Tom Siegfried

  A black futureIn a tunnel outside Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider will smash protons so energetically that tiny black holes might be produced in the process. Maximilien Brice/CERN Shortly after the first of the year (if not already), the Large Hadron Collider — the most powerful particle accelerator ever built — will smash protons together at record energies. If the …

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• 10 December

  Chomsky Half Full, By Joel Whitney & Noam Chomsky

  If Noam Chomsky’s critics have a common refrain, it is pointing to his habit of being far too hard on America’s motives and too easy on its opponents. The former, of course, is his métier. The latter criticism has limited (though a few important) instances. In fact, Chomsky’s central question is how do you punish the crook who owns the …

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• 9 December

  Iran, Turkey, Syria axis alarms the West and Israel, By Saybhan Samat

  For years Turkey has tried to join the European Union (EU) however Turkey ’s application for entry here been rejected time and again. Turkey continues its efforts to join the European Union, despite the open determination of some members of the EU such as Germany and France to exclude it. All this despite relations between Turkey , Israel and the …

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• 8 December

  Time to apply Islamic Concepts to Emerging Business Theory and Practice, By Shaukat Amer

  © Islamic Finance Today Shaukat  Amer is Assistant Professor of the Department of    Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,  Attock Campus –Pakistan. He has spoken and written  extensively on Islamic  Accounting  Theory and Principles and on Corporate Governance based on Islamic Valuese Today at a time of economic and financial crises, it is high time that we revamped present …

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• 8 December

  MAULVI MUMTAZ ALI -A NINETEENTH CENTURY ADVOCATE OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS, By Asghar Ali Engineer

  It is generally thought that movement for women’s rights began with western educated people and in 19th century. But very few people know about Maulavi Mumtaz Ali Khan, a traditional ‘alim, product of Darul ‘Uloom Deoband who was very enthusiastic supporters of gender equality. There are two things to be noted here: one, he was a traditional ‘alim and was …

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• 8 December

  Swiss vote to ban minarets fuels fear of Islam, By Tariq Ramadan

  It wasn’t meant to go this way. For months we had been told that the efforts to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland were doomed. The last surveys suggested around 34 percent of the Swiss population would vote for this shocking initiative. Last Friday, in a meeting organized in Lausanne, more than 800 students, professors and citizens were in …

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• 7 December

  Arabic Traces In Ridges of Sand By Mustapha Marrouchi

  For the uninitiated, the flowing of lines and seemingly idiosyncratic spattering of dots and dashes that characterize the Arabic script can appear an inscrutable enigma. That it is a cursive system with few clues as to exactly where discrete elements find their borders only adds to the puzzle. Without an overly onerous measure of study however, the mystery is breached …

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