Word: halal
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...audience's impatience with the critique format is emblematic of a generational yearning for greater freedom of expression in the cultural sphere. Music's status is contested in Islam, with some jurisprudents arguing that it is halal, permissible, and others insisting that it is haraam, forbidden. Following Iran's 1979 revolution, the new Islamic Republic at first banned all music. Although most classical and traditional music was soon allowed again, it wasn't until moderate President Khatami's term in 1997 that regulations loosened up sufficiently to allow Iranian rock band to spring up in garages across Tehran. Today, even...
...killed, the eating of in vitro meat is not a problem. This technicality raises some serious ethical questions. Is a vegetarian who eats in vitro meat still a vegetarian? Similar problems can easily be imagined for any other individual with dietary restrictions. For example, Jewish kashrut and Islamic halal both restrict the consumption of pork. Would pork grown in vitro or tissues that taste like pork but are different from any living animal fall under the restrictions? The same scenario can be imagined for Hindus who don’t eat beef. An even more extreme version could be imagined...
...with more audacious items like the gold-plated, diamond-encrusted Vertu phone decorated with a ruby snake and costing $370,000, the price of a one-bedroom apartment in South London. Catering to foreign tastes, exclusive wine bars are serving more sake, while the city's best butchers offer halal meats. Restaurants and members' clubs that used to be the domain of the old-money English are now mini-Babels, buzzing with the sounds of dozens of different languages...
...Lucille's customers are Egyptians, who appreciate that she makes a point of not serving alcohol or pork and observing halal meat-slaughtering practices. "I haven't tried burgers in the U.S., but this is the best one in Egypt," Randy Banna, a 25-year-old Cairene, agreed when I leaned over from my table to ask how he liked his cheeseburger. "It's not fast-food, where they cook it fast and you eat it fast. Here it's totally different." The culture clashes at Lucille's tend to be comical: Egyptian customers had a hard time understanding that...
...goes) • Any Humanities • Classics • Philosophy For the cultural omnivore (where meats go) • Social Studies (eclectic honors within the gates; to everyone else, 7th grade all over again) • Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (kosher and halal) • Social Anthropology These just sound cool—like kumquats and cherimoya (where fruits go) • Astronomy and Astrophysics (rocket science is badass) • Organismic and Evolutionary Biology • Romance Languages and Literatures (learn how to serenade that special someone...