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Muslim women, who were displaced by deadly religious strife last year, stand in a queue to cast their votes for the general election at a polling station in Palra village in Muzaffarnagar district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh April 10, 2014. (Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee)


Four Women’s Stories at a Time of Turmoil

Four Women’s Stories at a Time of Turmoil

Over the past four decades, many Muslim-majority countries have suffered from conflict, revolution, war and terror while trying to face the challenge of finding their proper place in a modern world they find both attractive and repulsive. While everyone has had a...
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Al-Shafi’i Mosque was built in the 13th century AD. (Asharq Al-Awsat)


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File photo showing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki speaking during a news conference in Baghdad. (Reuters)


The Game of Carving up a Nation

The Game of Carving up a Nation

With the latest crisis pushing Iraq back onto the world’s headlines, it is no surprise that a number of books examining Iraqi politics and history have appeared or reappeared in bookshops across the West. These books could be grouped in three categories. In the first...
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Director Asghar Farhadi (L) and actor Peyman Moadi pose with the award for ‘Best foreign film’ for “A Separation” at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles, United States, on January 15, 2012. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)


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An Afghan boy looks out from a book store in the Old City on November 7, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)


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Mafrosh book fair, held in Eteni Square in the center of Khartoum on the first Tuesday of the month. (Asharq Al-Awsat)