BBC. An installation in Moscow’s Red Square in the form of a giant Louis Vuitton suitcase is to be dismantled. The suitcase, which had been due to house an exhibition about luggage produced by the luxury brand, had caused outrage among some Muscovites. Some MPs had decried the installation as […]
Michael Barry, the Patti Cadby Birch Consultative Chairman, Department of Islamic Art, MMA, presents this examination of the mysterious central figure in one of the most enigmatic paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Giorgiones “Three Philosophers” (Venice, 1504). The discussion of this work, which is now in the Kunsthistoriches Museum in […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) By Gregory Wallace @gregorywallace In the not-too-distant future, Amazon deliveries could come by air directly to your doorstep. The online mega-retailer unveiled plans on Sunday for a new […]
Article written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times If you wonder what your life would be like without the moon, the surprising answer is […]
Source: Der Spiegel The Geneva nuclear treaty with Tehran offers the West new opportunities and could change the world. But secret documents suggest it is the hardliners in Iran who stand to profit the most from the new opening. The clear losers are Israel and Saudi Arabia. Rarely has an […]
Huff Post: There was a rumor that recently made rounds on the Internet about the State of Angola banning the religion of Islam, demoting it to the status of a “cult” and making plans to demolish mosques across the country. This later proved to be a hoax. CAIR USA was one of […]
Huff Post: There was a rumor that recently made rounds on the Internet about the State of Angola banning the religion of Islam, demoting it to the status of a “cult” and making plans to demolish mosques across the country. This later proved to be a hoax. CAIR USA was one of […]
Epigraph: He (Allah) it is Who made the sun radiate a brilliant light and the moon reflect a lustre, and ordained for it stages, that you might know the number […]