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Jasmine J. Mahmoud ’04 is a government concentrator in Winthrop House. She is an associate editorial chair...
...Jasmine J. Mahmoud ’04, Olamipe I. Okunseinde ’04 and Luke Smith...
...chaos of the intifadeh and the rise of a gangster class of guns for hire. Officials from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority met in Cairo last week to discuss an agreement to end suicide bombings. But Arafat canceled plans to send his usual troubleshooter, Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas, and sent lower-level officials instead. Hamas responded by pulling back its top man, Khaled Meshaal. Even the limited progress reported at the meeting was condemned in a communique issued in Gaza by Hamas and Islamic Jihad--joined, significantly, by the Ahmed Abu Reesh Brigades and the Salahuddin Brigades...
...Anthony S.A. Freinberg ’04, Nicholas F.M. Josefowitz ’05, Julia G. Kiechel ’04, Emma S. MacKinnon ’05, Jasmine J. Mahmoud ’04 and Luke Smith...
...Sudanese government executed a theologian named Mahmoud Muhammad Taha for daring to question the Koran. The sages at Al-Azhar University in Egypt had found Taha guilty of apostasy for a thesis he developed in his book, The Second Mission of Islam. Taha argued that the Koran contains two categories of verses: those that the prophet Muhammad recited in Mecca and those recited in Medina. For Taha, the Medina verses, with their emphasis on legal rules, were written in a historical context that no longer exists, so Islam should instead focus on the spiritual and ethical message revealed in Mecca...