India: Seminar on Changing Trends in Panegyric Literature on Prophet Muhammad

Source: twocircles.net | By TCN News, Kozhikode: Research papers are invited for an academic seminar organized on the topic of “Versifying Sacred Love: Changing Trends in Panegyric Literature” organized by Samastha Kerala Sunni Student Federation (SKSSF) on January 20th, 2014 at University of Calicut. Theme: Spiritual Attraction towards sacred Personalities has been […]

The clash to come in Thailand

Source: Asia Times: By Shawn W Crispin BANGKOK – With an estimated 100,000 anti-government protesters surrounding Government House and the political opposition resigning en masse from parliament, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today bid to defuse tensions by calling for new general elections. It is not clear yet, however, that […]

Whose sarin?

by Seymour M. Hersh You are invited to read this free essay from the London Review of Books. Subscribe now to access every article from every fortnightly issue of the London Review of Books, including the entire LRB archive of over 12,500 essays and reviews. Barack Obama did not tell […]