Word: allah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miami Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger, formerly based in South Asia, recalls that she found it unsettling to fly on Pakistan International Airlines because as a flight approached its destination, a stewardess would customarily announce, "In ten minutes, inshallah ((God willing)), we will be landing." Says Gauger gratefully: "Allah never failed...
...course." he answered. "Not so much for what they sent us--as you know, Allah has made us impervious to bullets, so military hardware is more or less unneccessary--but it's the thought that counts. Especially during this holiday season--it's a time of loving and giving, and that means...
Within an hour of the verdict, the Foreign Office summoned Syrian Ambassador Loutof Allah Haydar and told him of Britain's intention to expel him and the 20 other diplomats in the Syrian Embassy...
...eleven-day visit to Turkey from his home in London. "My records sold all over Europe, but I was not a man of show business," Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, told Turkish reporters. "I was feeling lost. But once I read the Koran I took refuge in the guidance of Allah. This took the place of secular things. All my concepts have changed." Indeed. Islam, 37, also chided those who let music take "the place of Allah...
Indonesian schoolchildren recite at the end of their prayers to Allah, "two children are enough / Good for family planning body and soul / It's good for you, body and soul / It'll keep you well preserved." Women once doomed to uncontrolled fertility are now coerced into contraception. The explosion of reproductive technologies in the modern age, such as sperm banks and test tube babies, is a mixed blessing at best for women, changing perhaps the means but not necessarily the forces of (re)production...