| MEDIA PERSPECTIVES | How the Issues of Class and Ethnicity Qualify the Presentations of Gendered Power in: East is East
Gender implies the physical attributes reflected in an individual, whether it is male or female. Gender, however, is a complex issue. The biological explanation to it is just touching the surface of understanding what really constitutes “gender”. Surely it is the biological term “sex” that labels us “male” or “female”. Whereas the term “gender” clearly implies the way in which male and female roles are socially conditioned by soci...
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| FAIR VIEW | Features of the New Islaamic Discourse (Part 4 of 4)
12. Reviving Islaamic Relativism: The new Islaamic discourse is aware of the basic philosophical question in the modern world, that is, the question of epistemological relativism that leads to nihilism. It replaces it with what may be termed “Islaamic relativism”, which asserts that there is only one absolute, the Almighty. But His absoluteness implies the relativism of everything else. However, by virtue of the presence of the absolute God outside relative time, He becomes the centre ...
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| HARUN YAHYA | Islaam: The Most Rapidly Expanding Religion in Europe
During the last 20 years, the number of Muslims in the world has been increasing steadily. Statistics for the year 1973 indicate that the world population of Muslims was 500 million; now, it has reached 1.5 billion. Today, every fourth person is a Muslim. It is probable that the Muslim population will continue to increase and that Islaam will become the world's largest religion. The reason for this steady rise is not only the increasing population in Muslim countries, but also the growing nu...
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| OCCIDENTAL VIEW | Illusions of Superiority
I stepped onto the speakers' platform at the Virginia Festival of Books in Charlottesville with Newsday editor Les Payne to discuss our chapters in his book When Race Becomes Real. Bernestine Singley, the other panelist, had edited the book.
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| PINNACLE | Poetic Ambitions Kholood Habiballa’s Promising Rhythmical Future
17 Year old Kholood Habiballa’s poetic skills were discovered early, with teachers and family members encouraging her to develop this talent further. With that, she won a poetry contest in America, gaining recognition and publicity as a young talented poet, setting a bright, promising future for Kholood in both her educational and poetical life.
In this exclusive, extended interview, Marwah El-Azhary aims to reveal how the seeds of Kholood’s success were sown and how others can fol
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| PINNACLE | Reflections on “My Exhaustion”
This poem has an Arabian theme, based on true love between a wife and her husband. In the poem, an Arab woman is talking about her husband and how she waits for him to return and how she feels when she is with him. The message that Kholood wanted people to understand is that true love is something that keeps a person content, challenged, inspired, and always growing as an intellectual human being. Kholood also wanted to show people the beauty of the Arabian culture, which is why she incorporated ...
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| SOUL SEARCHERS | Searching for the Truth
It all began when I was nine years old. I went to Church, as always, but I felt like I was missing something, although I was not sure what exactly that was.
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| MACROPHONE | The ’HIjaaz Railway
Most accounts of the ’Hijaaz railroad history are either obscure or inaccurate on the point referring to the originator of the idea. A commonly repeated reference is made of Dr. Ferdinand Zimpel, an American civil engineer, who is usually credited, even in some scholarly works, with the honour of conceiving of the idea of a railroad that connects Damascus to Makkah.
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| MACROPHONE | Wooden Foundation of Venice
The Italian city of Venice is built on several small islands. The wet sand is as fluid as soft jelly. You build a house and it sinks in a little while. In order to reinforce the ground the Venetians had rammed hundreds of thousands of wooden piles into it so it would make a solid foundation for the majestic city.
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| CAPITA | eJilbab: The Electronic Future for Islaamic Clothing
eJilbab was established on August 2004 with the simple idea of conservativeness and modesty for the Muslim woman. eJilbab’s mission is to fulfill Muslim women in the west with Islaamic clothes at affordable prices. Their main manufacturing products are jilbabs (jilbaabs), abayas (‘abaa-ahs), dishdashs (dishdaashs) and traditional thoubs (thawbs).
Hayat Alyaqout interviews the entrepreneurs of the project and discovers more about eJilbab and how it came into being.
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| IN DEPTH | Balance and Imbalance In the Equation on “Differentiation – Continuity” Between Civilisations 4/4
“‘Following Scientific revolutions, and through an unexpected transfer, scientists are now facing a different science’. This is the conclusion reached by Thomas S. Khun in his theory on the structure of scientific revolution. In the case of technological revolutions however, the whole world is exposed to a gradual change, and the rate of change depends on the nature of the technologies of impact ad their interaction with the elements of the social environment.”
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| BOOKS IN FOCUS | First Signs of Numerical Miracles In the Holy ’Qura~n (Part 2)
Now, let us return to the words: “And that those in whose hearts is a disease and the unbelievers may say ‘What doth Allaah intend by this mathal?’…” The number 19 is mentioned in connection with the threat of Sa’qar (Hell-Fire), and that it is guarded by nineteen must seem ambiguous.
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| NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS | C.A.I.R. Council on American-Islamic Relations
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.) is a non-profit 501(c) (4), grassroots civil rights and advocacy group. C.A.I.R. is America’s largest Islaamic civil liberties group, with regional offices nationwide and in Canada. The national headquarters is located on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
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| MED-AWARE | Heredity, D.N.A. and Genome: Top Secrets of Life (1.Heredity)
Did you ask your self about the similarities between you and your father? Why your son has different colour eyes than yours and his mother’s and from where he got them? Ever wondered about the mystery behind transformation of special features through generations and how it could have occurred? Maybe in the 18th centaury and the beginning of the 19th centaury this would have been hard to discover, however now we have the keys of these confusing questions.
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| EYE ON I.T. | Take Precautions to Guard Your Online Privacy
Some people say never send anything confidential or private over the Internet. This may have been good advice five years ago, but things are changing quickly on the Internet. Privacy has been added to many programs and features so that only the recipient of the communication can read it. Thus there are times when it’s perfectly safe to send credit card numbers, resumes, and other sensitive information over the Internet.
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| EXCEL | Personal Change (Part 2)
When is it the time to change?
Is your life not all it could be? Do you feel that you are not fulfilling your potentials? More than often a person comes to the stage where they halt and recall their life’s achievements and failures.
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