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Jim Al-Khalili
Published: 12:01AM GMT 29 Jan 2008
For 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic
The untold story of Arabic brilliance should be a timely reminder of a proud heritage, says Jim Al-Khalili
Next year, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th of the publication of his On The [...]
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Who is “spreading corruption on earth”?
Come Thursday, six of the members of the ad hoc group that coordinated the life of the Baha’i community of Iran – the Yaran – will have been in jail for exactly a year. They are Mrs Fariba Kamalabadi, Mr Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr Afif Naemi, Mr Saeid Rezaie, Mr Behrouz [...]
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The Baha’i International Community has addressed a powerful letter to Iran’s Prosecutor General, Ayatollah Qorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi.
The letter refutes the spurious accusations and allegations that have been made in recent days against the Baha’is in Iran and particularly against the national leadership group, six of [...]
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Would it be too much to claim that this man, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, changed the world?
Watching the first of three episodes of BBC 2 TV’s excellent new documentary on Iran and the West (available on BBC iPlayer to those living in the UK) was enough to persuade me (had I needed persuading) [...]
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“Orderly walk backwards”
I find this a disturbing piece of video. This is what journalist/commentator Tom Gross wrote about it.
BRITISH POLICE: “WE DIDN’T RUN AWAY FROM GAZA PROTESTORS. IT WAS AN ORDERLY WALK BACKWARDS”
I sent this amateur video to various people, including journalists, a week ago, and some have now written about it, including a story [...]
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This story on Opticianonline highlights the risk for glaucoma patients of interpreting their religious fasting practices strictly.
It seems that some patients stop using their eye drops during periods of religious fasting, such as Ramadan.
A team led by Dr Nishant Kumar of University Hospital, Liverpool studied patient compliance in relation to fasting by analysing 350 surveys [...]
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“The treatment of Baha’is is appalling and unacceptable,” said Baroness Haleh Afshar at the launch last night of the Foreign Policy Centre’s latest pamphlet, A Revolution Without Rights? Women, Kurds and Baha’is Searching for Equality in Iran.” It is – in every way – not only against accepted human rights regulations but the ancient traditions [...]
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Regular readers will recall that I cried “shame” in this post at the “dialogue” dinner that some of the churches were holding for Iran’s President Ahmadinejad in New York. I wondered how these church leaders thought it appropriate to “dialogue” with the persecutor of all kinds of minorities in Iran – including the largest non-Muslim [...]
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Iranian.com has just published this article about the denial to Bahá’ís by the Iranian authorities of access to higher education. It is an English translation by Ahang Rabbani of an article in Persian by Ahmad Batebi (published on 2 September in Roozonline)
Ahmad Batebi, is not a Bahá’í, but he too has suffered at the hands [...]
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I was deeply touched to receive the “I Love Your Blog” Award from one of my favourite fellow bloggers, Tess of Anchors and Masts. Tess’s writing combines spirituality, art, and wisdom – amongst other things – and I am honoured to be one of her awardees (is there such a word?).
The great joy of [...]
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