by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 1, 2010 | Interviews, Lifestyle & Culture
It never crossed the minds of any of the people digging under the scorching sun as part of the project to remove groundwater to salvage the West Bank temples in Luxor that a large, rose-colored statue of a monkey weighing around five tons that represented Thoth, the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 30, 2010 | Business, Interviews
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat – At a time when concepts and terms are being mixed up, it is the duty of scholars to fix this and to restore these terms and concepts to their original condition so that they carry out the aim for which they were intended and so that...
An Emirati woman looks at “Like Everyday” piece by Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian exhibited by Christie’s in Dubai. (AFP)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 28, 2010 | Interviews, Lifestyle & Culture
Dubai, Asharq Al-Awsat- The first thing you notice when you walk into the Dubai office of Christie’s, the world famous auction house, is the sculpture by the contemporary Iranian international artist Parviz Tanavoli entitled ‘Heech.’ the Persian word for ‘nothing.’...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 26, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Saleh al-Mutlaq, whose National Dialogue Front is an important part of Iyad Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc, has revealed that current Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki offered him the Iraqi Presidency in return for withdrawing from the Iraqiya...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 26, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- In reply to the [Egyptian] director of public prosecution’s allegations of money laundering, the secretary general of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Ibrahim Munir stresses that he will appeal against the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 25, 2010 | Business, Interviews
Damascus, Asharq Al-Awsat- Syria’s Mufti, Dr. Ahmed Hassoun edict to rename Islamic banking as “partnership” has caused an uproar in the world of Islamic finance and its followers. Dr Hassoun justifies his call for renaming them as...
