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Bangladesh’s Working Women: Rural Roots
April 1, 2012 - 1 Comment
As Bangladesh celebrates its 41st independence day, the nation cannot be blinded by the few women who have risen, to forget...
April 1, 2012 - 1 Comment
As Bangladesh celebrates its 41st independence day, the nation cannot be blinded by the few women who have risen, to forget...
Hackney Under the Cranes
December 1, 2011 - 1 Comment
Amidst London's artistic calendar brimming with cinematic rendezvous, the Hackney Film Festival (HFF) surged, rightfully...
December 1, 2011 - 1 Comment
Amidst London's artistic calendar brimming with cinematic rendezvous, the Hackney Film Festival (HFF) surged, rightfully...
Early Muslim Commerce: Does Money Change People?
August 31, 2011 - 2 Comments
If you were to ask your friends what they want more of, the chances are they will say money. As the adage goes: money makes...
August 31, 2011 - 2 Comments
If you were to ask your friends what they want more of, the chances are they will say money. As the adage goes: money makes...
Reforming Our Understanding of Violence
February 17, 2010 - 1 Comment
By Toufic Machnouk Structural violence is the effect of a systematic imbalance in society that prefers the interests of some over others. Its dynamics are less visible than that of direct violence, where the causes are generally easier to identify. In terms of global relations, the use of direct violence is mostly a state affair manifested in armed conflict. The participation of the general population is predominantly one of inaction. Structural violence, however, tends to involve the participation...
February 17, 2010 - 1 Comment
By Toufic Machnouk Structural violence is the effect of a systematic imbalance in society that prefers the interests of some over others. Its dynamics are less visible than that of direct violence, where the causes are generally easier to identify. In terms of global relations, the use of direct violence is mostly a state affair manifested in armed conflict. The participation of the general population is predominantly one of inaction. Structural violence, however, tends to involve the participation...
“Keepers of a flame”: Reviving our financial system
January 27, 2010 - 3 Comments
By Tarek El Diwany Five hundred years ago, a person who attempted to lend money for a commercial gain in the City of London risked arrest for the crime of usury. On those same streets today the cream of our educational establishments vie for a share of the usurer’s pie, and in plush city boardrooms those who were once despised make decisions that affect the entire world of commerce and politics. Yet the wealth earned through usury is an illusion. The Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said...
January 27, 2010 - 3 Comments
By Tarek El Diwany Five hundred years ago, a person who attempted to lend money for a commercial gain in the City of London risked arrest for the crime of usury. On those same streets today the cream of our educational establishments vie for a share of the usurer’s pie, and in plush city boardrooms those who were once despised make decisions that affect the entire world of commerce and politics. Yet the wealth earned through usury is an illusion. The Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said...
