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...Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path,” and its companion display “Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs, and Sufis” at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, are part of a greater initiative, for which faculty and students are also advocating, to use art to educate the Harvard community about the religion of Islam, and by extension, Middle Eastern cultures. And for artists within an Islamic tradition who wish to educate a Western audience, these social motivations must be balanced against their aesthetic goals...
...Peabody exhibition was originally intended to be a display of her photographic documentation of the Muslim sect. However, Quraeshi felt that the photographs would have alone failed to portray a holistic view of Sufism, one that would be able to educate a Western viewer...
...ambition than laziness. Walk into nearly any major bookstore in Mumbai, and literature will be divided into two sections: “Fiction” and “South Asian Fiction,” meaning books of the Adiga-Desai stamp. (A strain of nationalism too is on display: Books by South Asian authors on non-South Asian topics, or non-South Asians on South Asia, find no place on the latter shelf.) A book that “matters” enough to merit national pride often connotes a thick tome of realism—one that attempts...
...wife, who asked that her name not be used, had called the City of Cambridge Police Department’s non-emergency hotline earlier that day. The couple said they had kept the cannonball on display under their television set since they found it in their closet a few years...
Radio Player Blagojevich's aptitude for politics and self-promotion is on display every Sunday, when he hosts a raucous, rant-heavy radio show for an AM station in Chicago's Loop. As a chief executive, Blagojevich, 52, earned a checkered reputation, but over the airwaves his gifts are self-evident. Clad in a burgundy polo shirt, his signature hair standing at attention, he is focused, energized and relentlessly on message, fusing ward-style populism with a preacher's rhythmic cadences as he blasts the cabal of politicians responsible for his ouster. Not since Holden Caulfield has the word phony...