9/11 Tenth Anniversary, “Ribbons Of Hope” Project – a set on Flickr

Mentioning this since they show love to my friend Wajahat Ali and his play Domestic Crusaders. — Dear Friend, Parwaz Playhouse is excited to announce its next production: BEYOND THE HORIZON by Eugene O’Neill, adapted and directed by Imran S. Javaid. Starring Adeel Ahmed, Aizzah Fatima, Kamran Khan, Fawzia Mahmood, and Imran W. Sheikh. Parwaz Playhouse’s first original play, GLASS, was performed to a sold-out audience at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in April 2010. Having received tremendous acclaim from the BBC, Bridges TV, Elan Magazine and other critical outlets, Parwaz Playhouse now presents a colorful and profound adaptation of…

Tracing Islamic History Through Its Scripts – NYTimes.com. The items, on display through Feb. 27, form part of the Aga Khan’s collection of Islamic art from the 8th to the 18th centuries, and will find a more permanent home when the Aga Khan Museum opens in Toronto in 2013. The founders say it will be the first major educational and exhibition center in North America dedicated to Muslim arts and culture.  Much of the writing displayed comes from Korans. Scribes faced the daunting task of precisely copying the Muslim holy book and in a way became early page designers, deciding…

A medieval monument to religious pluralism, hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan. One of the great wonders of the medieval world is a very tall, heavily ornamented minaret nestled in a green valley at the edge of the Jam river in what is now Afghanistan. Often called the Minaret of Jam, the monument was almost a millenium ago illuminated by a torch at its top, and surrounded by a thriving town with small industries and outlying farms.  What’s remarkable is that the writing on the minaret and archaeological remains nearby strongly suggest that the city harbored a population of Muslims,…