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Category: West Asia

The Ad Verse Effect

Well, it was on February 14, 1989 when the then Supreme Spiritual Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had vociferated a fatwa or proclaimed a Death Sentence against him, calling for […]

Pax Vobiscum!

It was Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, who had announced in December (2018) that 2019 would be officially proclaimed as the ‘Year of Tolerance’, […]

On Movements & Locomotion…

She could casually take strolls even three weeks ago… well, now, she cannot! However, she is not ready to suppress her plight. The 55-year-old Leyla Güven’s hunger strike entered its […]

Syrian Serial Turning Serious?

Teenager Leonora and her boyfriend Martin Lehm had left their homes four years ago, as the German couple planned to settle in Syria. The then 15-year-old Leonora thought that everything […]

On The Run, From Iran…

His own country had forced him, in a way, to leave his native land… and, his adopted country has honoured him with its top literary award. Most importantly, he wrote the book while […]

A Syria-ous Ally?

It seems that the existence of President Bashar al-Assad’s Syria is more or less secured as long as Iran is there. At a time when the US and its Western […]

Pain, e-Pen & Penitentiary…

It seems that a blasphemous tweet has proved to be expensive for a 28-year-old Indian engineer, who has landed in a jail in Saudi Arabia. Vishnu Dev from the southern Indian […]

Faith On Display!

Some have given up wearing hijabs (or headscarves or veils worn by Muslim women in the presence of any male outside of their immediate family), while some have announced their […]

A Friend In Need

Lebanon recently made a serious attempt to readmit neighbouring Syria to Arab League in order to boost the economy of the war-ravaged West Asian nation. During the recent Arab foreign […]