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...Harvard Islamic Society held a post-fast fête yesterday to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, a month-long period of fasting for Muslims...
...first day after Ramadan is the festival of Eid, a day of feasting, shopping for new clothes and giving gifts - and many residents of Baghdad would normally have made a beeline for Karrada's shops, where they can buy everything from large-screen TVs and air conditioners to garments and sweets. In anticipation of a spike in demand, many shopkeepers had doubled their inventory. But because the neighborhood has been shut off by U.S. and Iraqi forces, shoppers are taking their business elsewhere, much to the chagrin of Karrada's business community. "In a good year, as much...
...statement. "I was screaming asking him to stop so that I can catch my breath. He took down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi's lawyer, said when he saw his client after the beating, his eye was swollen shut and his body covered in cuts and bruises. "This sexual assault is a new variety of torture being used against the activists," he said. "I haven't seen any beating this bad since...
...participation and the political fallout from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s debilitating stroke on Jan. 4.“At the beginning of the month, things seemed to be deteriorating and we were quite worried,” Blanc said. “But after Eid in the middle of January, President Abbas made a speech saying that the elections will go on and we have seen virtually no violence of any kind since then.”Despite the fact that Israel has lifted many restrictions for the election, many Palestinians living in Jerusalem will find...
...fighting now under way does not, however, involve the M.I.L.F., by far the largest rebel group in the south. Its spokesman, Eid Kabalu, said it wouldn't even affect the protracted peace negotiations with Manila. In fact, the M.I.L.F. last week offered to help broker a cease-fire on Jolo. Arroyo's government didn't respond to that weird offer?one group of armed rebels offering to help the government with another?so redolent of the troubled south. For the time being, restoring peace is in military hands...