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17 Dec 2023, 12:30 am
v=vl-4FkUnHaU▫️NFMLA is a nonprofit which seeks to advance “the careers of emerging independent filmmakers and preserving Los Angeles’s lacy as a mecca for international film culture and filmmaking …. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
In our conversation we discuss types of mosque activities, Mamluk Cairo, women's educational participation, the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the transmission of knowledge, European travelers accounts of Muslim women, night prayers, mosque construction, debates about the mosque in Mecca, and modern developments in legal discussions during the 20th century. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 10:25 am
From CNN:Authorities later found thousands more rounds of ammunition at the couple's residence, 12 pipe bombs and hundreds of tools that "could be used to construct IEDs or pipe bombs," the [San Bernardino Police Chief] said....Syed Rizwan Farook... was apparently radicalized and in touch with people being investigated by the FBI for international terrorism, law enforcement officials said Thursday....Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia for several weeks in 2013 on the Hajj, the annual… [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Beydoun, Facing Mecca from Prison: Religious Accommodation of Muslim Prisoners Before Holt v. [read post]
7 Aug 2014, 1:58 pm by Joe Patrice
Which direction is Mecca from the Williamsburg Bridge?). [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Rabb, Harvard Law School, and director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, says of the book:Marion Holmes Katz brings to light and adds context to the fascinating history of women’s access to mosques through a dexterous presentation of a wide range of legal sources, travel accounts, contemporaneous Christian and Jewish accounts, literature, and a unique sixteenth-century manuscript recounting when women contested the ruling authorities’ attempt to ban them from Islam’s most… [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 6:39 am
There is, in fact, one more crush, in 1896, and it was larger than the 1990 Mecca stampede: the Khodynka Tragedy, which killed 1389:Nicholas II was crowned Tsar of Russia on 26 May 1896. [read post]
  California, mecca of the film and media production industries in the U.S., is notorious for outlawing non-compete agreements. [read post]
  California, mecca of the film and media production industries in the U.S., is notorious for outlawing non-compete agreements. [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 8:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
It’s a particularly sensitive subject for the Saudi monarchy, which considers its governance of Mecca and management of the hajj as a cornerstone of its legitimacy; the phrase “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques” (in Mecca and Medina) is the choice honorific for the king. [read post]
2 Nov 2006, 9:25 am
Here are a few:Overheard at WesternOverheard in New YorkOverheard Lines (in San Fran)Overheard at the Mecca (Howard Uni)I'm still waiting for an "Overheard at Queen's" blog. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 8:39 am by Susan Schneider
Salon delivers a great review some of the best/worst examples of food being renamed to match current political fashion - 10 tragic moments in food propaganda: From Freedom Fries to Mecca Cola. [read post]
2 Jun 2019, 8:28 pm by Staycie R. Sena
When the officer came across the pair, they were identified as Daniel Walshire, and his 31-year-old girlfriend, Rebekah Mecca. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 9:36 am by Sheppard Mullin
 Art can be big business, and not just in cosmopolitan meccas like New York and Los Angeles. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 9:36 am by Sheppard Mullin
 Art can be big business, and not just in cosmopolitan meccas like New York and Los Angeles. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 9:36 am by Sheppard Mullin
 Art can be big business, and not just in cosmopolitan meccas like New York and Los Angeles. [read post]