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Wednesday June 19, 2013

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To Reach You Move; To Transform Travel Read more The fate of Jews at Banu Qurayza Read more Diverse Ways of a Freelance Monotheist Read more A Refuge of Diversity Read more Najran: Two Warring Metaphors Read more Despotism or Pluralism: Questions on Islam Read more Latife Hanim: When Secrecies Unveil Read more The Medina Charter Read more Parenting: Counsels from Kids' Corridor Read more Digital Reincarnation for Dunhuang's Buddhist Art Read more

To Reach You Move; To Transform Travel

Author: Muhammad Noushad

Post date: 28 May 2013 - 06:48

Film Review: The Way (2010), Directed by Emilio Estevez, 121 minutes, English.

Ways are endless. More endless are their offerings of the unexpected. It’s obvious that ways can take you to places and people. To unknown, unheard, unthought of, unimagined universes. However, where a way eventually leads you hardly matters in comparison with what it fills in you when you are on the way. Of course, destinations are important. A mosque or a cathedral or a temple or a saint’s grave might heal your spiritual grief. It could offer you peace,...

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A Political Myth-Making

Author: K Shabin Muhammed

Post date: 16 Apr 2013 - 03:13

Indeed, the popular culture of Hollywood or the American global culture forces us to see people helpless. Only the US can help and protect them from any ‘monstrosities’. After the 9/11 attack they succeeded to make us believe that they are the global police all set for an agenda with the support of media.

Ben Affleck’s Argo was nominated for the best picture in 85th Academy Award of Oscar in 2012. The movie portrays the hostage crisis in Iran in 1979 during the Islamic revolution lead by Ayatulla Khomeini. The movie focused on the six American diplomats who escaped...

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Does the Big Screen Miss the Prophet?

Author: K Shabin Muhammed

Post date: 5 Feb 2013 - 03:47

Love and respect for the Prophet is part of the faith of Islam. There are so many representations of the Prophet in art and literature that it takes a voluminous space to chronicle them all. Resistance to the musical and literary representations from the Muslim orthodoxy has never been as vociferous as it has been to the visual representations. Though Jesus Christ has been essayed on screen many times- Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of the Christ and Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ are two remarkable examples-we can number the times the cinematograph got going on...

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