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[Face to Face Intercultural] Bernard Lewis, Iran in History (2001). - Face to Face Intercultural: Although Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and other nations had been conquered repeatedly, Iran, though conquered by Alexander, was only briefly part of the Hellenistic Empire and was never conquered by Rome. Hellenistic influence on Iran was less enduring, with a new empire arising “which was the peer and the rival of the empires of Rome and later of Byzantium.” Consequently, at the time of the Arab conquest, the Persians had a unique “sense of ancient glory, of pride in identity”, expressed clearly in Persian writings of the Islamic period and in the use of distinctive Persian names for their children, along with names from the Qur’an or pagan Arabia (Ali, Muhammad, Ahmad, etc.).

[Untitled] Iran: Four Journalists Receive Hellman/Hammett Grants | Human ...: In April 2005, he was arrested because of interviews he gave criticizing the suppression of protests by the Arab population of the Ahwaz region in southwestern Iran. He was sent to Evin Prison, held in solitary confinement for 65 days, and subjected to psychological torture in an attempt to force him to make false confessions.

[Harrisonburg Summits] Caring for Children in Kurdish Culture | Harrisonburg Summits: Currently, there are Kurdish farmers and nomads present, but many other Kurds are educated, pursue higher education. However, Kurds are still not independent (as a nation/country).

[Faith Freedom International] Arabs' Language Oppression Squelches Intellectual Growth | Islam ...: Faith Freedom International is about : Ex-muslims, Islam, Islamic Terrorism, Quran, Mohammad, Apostasy, Jihad and Terrorism, Islamocritics, Islam and its effects on Muslims, Ali Sina, Mohammad's Pedophilia,Ex Muslim testimonials, Prophet Muhammad's wives, Quranic Contradictions, Anti Islamic site, Apostates of Islam, Ex-muslim free thinker,Anti Islamic Cartoons, Ex muslims site, Against Islamic teachings,  Debates with Ayatollah,Ghamidi and invitations to Zakir Naik (of IRF), Islam and Science, Islam and wormen, Islam Online Resource.

[babyjulia | Blog Talk Radio Feed] arabic music: It is an amalgam of the music of the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula and the music of all the peoples that make up the Arab world today. It also influenced and has been influenced by ancient Egyptian, ancient Greek, Persian, Kurdish, Assyrian, Turkish, Indian, North African music (i.e.

[Kurdish Academy of Language] The history of translating Kurdish literature from foreign ...: Translating the Bible in the Armenian and Syriac by missionaries and Armenian patriarchs has several aims, including issuing the Armenian and Syriac alphabet instead of using Arabic letters, and to write and read the Kurdish language. Another aim was to make the Kurdish nation stop using the Arabic alphabet, and stay away from the Turkish, Persian, and Arabic cultures and instead commit to the Armenian-Christian culture.

[Dhimmi Watch] Gorin: "Islam and our media want us to hit the snooze button again ...: But the brains of those who grow up in societies suffused with Islam, and if, furthermore, are Arabs so have no other identity to play off against Islam (as do the Berbers or Kurds), but rather an identity that reinforces the idea of Islam, then it is not silly for us, the Infidels whose legal, political, and social institutions, whose freedom of thought and expression are all threatened, whose physical survival is or could be put into question were Islam to be triumphant, say, in Western Europe, would be fools not to shudder now at the sight of a mosque, or a turbanned mullah, or a fiery Saudi sheikh delivering himself of a khutba -- or for that matter, even the sight of Arabic script on that newspaper that that man sitting next to you on the London Underground, or on the plane that has just taken off from Kennedy or Reagan, has opened and is now studying intently, and the fasten-your-seatbelt sign is still on, and you wish, you wish you had not taken this particular plane, and will continue to wish it until the plane has landed, and you are safely off, and far away from that man with his newspaper. And your fear may be unfounded, but it makes perfect sense, and is justified by all that has happened over the past few years -- justified perhaps most by your glimmer of understanding that too many, such as those described by Julia Gorin so acutely, are in cahoots to deliberately make you feel apologetic, make you feel guilty, for being rightly suspicious, rightly nervous.

[Israel News] Israel News: So-called "Arab Jews": Even if I spoke fluent Arabic and wore a kaffiyeh, I would not be mistaken for an "Arab Jew," and neither should my cousin's ancestors be called "Arab Jews." If there are "Arab Jews" then the statement, "I am an Arab and you are a Jew" would not make much sense. Nor would it make any sense to say that the Arab Arabs attacked the "Arab Jews" of Hebron and Jerusalem in 1929, yelling "Idbah al Yahoud" - "Murder the Jews." Perhaps they should have yelled, "Murder the Arabs." If there were were really Arab Jews, it would make no sense for Arabs to say "Kulu al ard Arabi" (All the land is Arab) or "Filastin Arduna wa'al yahud kilabuna" (Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs) in order to assert that Israel does not belong to the Jews..

[Baghdad Bureau] A Baghdad Reading List - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: Our British security adviser, Andy Arkell, is another Russo-bibliophile, and is savoring 15 pages a night of Vasily Grossman’s weighty “Life and Fate,” set during the battle of Stalingrad and “intimately realized by Grossman, who was there”

[Omniglot blog] Omniglot blog » Blog Archive » Sounds familiar: Before I learned MSA I did not really like the sounds of it. But by understanding it and know the structure, based at the fa'el (verb), I appreciated it more and more.

[Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - books] Poem of the week | Books | guardian.co.uk: An Iraqi kurdish friend of mine read some of his poetry in Arabic and French during a reading in Paris - I remember how much more we were moved by the reading in Arabic, because the rhythm really is so important. Of course, just as when we write in English - it is always in the context of our background, right down to the village dialect, in Arabic it is the same - the differences matter greatly.

[Centurean2's Weblog] “A Bridge Too Far” Turkey's Entry into Europe”¦. « Centurean2's Weblog: In Warsaw, the 16 and 17 May 2005, the Council of Europe adopted the following resolution: “We strongly condemn all forms of intolerance and discrimination, in particular those based on sex, race and religion, including anti semitism and islamophobia. We affirm our determination to further develop, within the Council of Europe, rules and effective machinery to prevent and eradicate them….We entrust our colleague, Jean-Claude Juncker, to prepare, in his personal capacity, a report on the relationship between the Council of Europe and the European Union, on the basis of the decisions taken at the Summit and taking into account the importance of the human dimension of European construction”

[Baghdad Bureau] S.U.V.'s and Rifles - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The song is about grabbing your Brno (Czech made rifle), more of a tribal than an insurgent thing, and hopping into a GMC Suburban that would take you to Ramadi, a Sunni Arab city and then onward to the mainly Shiite cities of Basra in the extreme south and Hilla in the center. A call for reconciliation and unity of sorts for Iraqis worn out by wars and sectarian splits.

[MR's Blog] Only 4 Arab Prophets in Islam | MR's Blog: even though we have the most popular and widely quoted last sermon of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) saying “an arab is not better than a non-arab nor is a white greater than a black except in taqwa”.   The fact that the majority of Prophets of Allah are non-Arab is also proof that Islam came for everyone and is for everyone.

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