Ethiopia news - Culture

A Subversive Soap Roils Saudi Arabia

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:04:03 -0400

Publication date:
Sun, 2008-08-03 10:00

Author Name:
By Faiza Saleh Ambah

Source:
Washington Post Foreign Service

Article:

By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 3, 2008; A17

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- A Turkish soap opera featuring an independent fashion designer and her amazingly supportive and attractive husband is emptying the streets whenever it's on and has more than doubled the number of Saudis visiting Turkey this summer.

Veil Closes France’s Door to Citizenship

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:08:12 -0400

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Mon, 2008-07-21 10:00

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By KATRIN BENNHOLD

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LA VERRIÈRE, France — When Faiza Silmi applied for French citizenship, she worried that her French was not quite good enough or that her Moroccan upbringing would pose a problem.

The deep slumber of decided opinions:Rowan Williams and the Sharia controversy

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:17:11 -0400

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Sat, 2008-03-29 14:00

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by Stephen H. Jones

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When Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Church, suggested that the British public consider "some accommodation" to Islamic law, and that such an accommodation ultimately was "unavoidable", the response was one of outrage. Yet in most cases, Williams's words were wildly misinterpreted, writes Stephen Jones. When even the most progressive writers about Islam do not denounce the concept of Sharia, would it not be more productive to ask how a symbol that stands for all that is good comes to be used to justify oppression? Could it be that unwillingness to countenance references to the Sharia betrays a reluctance to examine the ethical and moral bases of legal norms in the West?

In Somalia Refuge Rapes Left to Clan Justice

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:41:11 -0500

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Sun, 2008-01-20 14:00

Author Name:
By Zoe Alsop

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The Somalia town of Galkayo is known as a refuge from the violence to the south. But girls and women who are separated from their clans know little safety: An 8-year-old was raped and her mother must keep working with the man who did it.

Somalia: Where khat is king

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:55:06 -0400

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Mon, 2007-09-17 03:00

Author Name:
By Anna Husarska

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By Anna Husarska
Special to The Washington Post

GALKAYO, Somalia -- On a dusty street that runs through this town of 80,000 in central Somalia, a cluster of men sit on low stools, lost in their daily ritual -- chewing the green leaves of a mild narcotic called khat. Lethargic and

Happy New Year All Ethiopians

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:14:08 -0400

An acrobat entertains the crowd gathered for the celebrations of the Ethiopian Millennium in Addis Ababa, September 11, 2007. Kilil5 Online

featured Article: Ethiopians cringe at lavish millennium bash

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:34:21 -0400

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Mon, 2007-09-03 10:00

Author Name:
by Aaron Maasho

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As they prepare to mark the year 2000 seven years after the rest of the world, Ethiopians are torn between pride in a unique culture and uneasiness at the extravaganza planned to mark the occasion.

Africa Insight: The new Africans called Afropolitans

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:58:01 -0400

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Fri, 2007-08-31 07:00

Author Name:
by TAIYE TUAKLI-WOSORNU

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There is a new breed of internationally mobile, young people of African descent making their mark on the world. They are neither Africans nor Americans or Europeans for that matter but children of many worlds. Afropolitans they are.

city's history under attack

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:20:23 -0400

Muslim Pilgrims performing the hajj walk outside the Great Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in this Dec. 27, 2006 file picture. Land developers and religious zealots are transforming Islam's holiest city, erecting giant glass and marble towers of luxury apartments, hotels and gleaming new malls while destroying ancient landmarks.

Goodbye Saciido and Hana

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:02:29 -0400

Hodan Hassan, right, a distant cousin of a Somali woman missing after last week's bridge collapse in Minneapolis, is comforted by her mother-in-law, Fadum Ali, left, during a Somali community prayer service in Minneapolis Friday, Aug.

YAO

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:29:12 -0400

NBA star Yao Ming and his fiance Ye Li pose in their official wedding portrait in Hangzhou, China in this photo released August 6, 2007. Yao married Ye at a jealously guarded private ceremony at a luxury hotel in Shanghai on Monday.

Veiled Muslim women

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:21:41 -0400

When she is walking she is often stopped, Ms. Mayata said. “People ask, ‘Why do you wear that?’ A lot of people assume I’m oppressed, that I don’t speak English. I don’t care. I’ve got a brain.”

Image of the day

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:54:16 -0400

Geel ka soo fulay ceelkii biyaha.

image of the day.

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:20:54 -0400

Somalian refugees sit outside a "herio", a traditional Somali house, after being displaced from Bulla Punda village by floods in Garissa tow

Image of the day.

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:07:13 -0400

Somali refugees wait for the food at the Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers in Bekescsaba, 220 km (137 miles) southeast of Budapest, June 4