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Mohamed Atta confronts the historic Muslim monuments and modern high-rises of Cairo. By Daniel Brook on dispatchesIn 1994, Mohamed Atta traveled to Istanbul with a student group and continued onward to visit Dittmar Machule in northern Syria, where the professor was doing fieldwork on a Bronze Age village under excavation. But Atta found himself more […]

 
by Nadeem Haque

Mosques remain totally unregulated, need no zoning permission and have been actively encouraged by the state. Not surprising, the mosque is the only community centre for the excluded poor; the unregulated maulvi the only visionary
 
Our great analysts (mainly columnists) never go beyond Zia-ul Haq and the political leadership to understand the causes of our […]

My cubicle at work is near the Western window, which opens right onto Hamdan Street, one of the busiest roads in Abu Dhabi. And even though the rushhour traffic pales in comparison to the afternoon rush on M.A.Jinnah Road, it still makes for a little latency during the trips to and from work. The high-rises […]

My cubicle at work is near the Western window, which opens right onto Hamdan Street, one of the busiest roads in Abu Dhabi. And even though the rushhour traffic pales in comparison to the afternoon rush on M.A.Jinnah Road, it still makes for a little latency during the trips to and from work. The high-rises […]

I recently had a vacation after a very long time and it was the first one outside the country. It was to Dubai this time and the fact that I was traveling alone made it all the more exciting.
The so-called business visa, valid for 14 days, was obtained with great difficulty and after numerous visits […]