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Pretty views, an equable climate and the fact that because St. Gallen is not a fashion mecca, the designer is not distracted by what he sees around him mean higher productivity for Albert Kriemler, who works either in his attic studio atop the old school that houses the Akris ateliers or at his desk at home, looking out onto a meadow of wildflowers and an installation he commissioned from the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay...
...Spain--conquered by Islam in the 8th century, lost to Christianity in 1492. That's a long way from Haifa, from Lebanon, from Baghdad and even from Mecca. It's an even longer way from rationality, which is why the struggle against it will be long and painful, and enduringly surreal...
...Islamic injunction for women to safeguard their chastity and avoid the attentions of men. "I love Allah and I also love to dress up," explains emcee Do'aa Amer, a popular personality on an Arab satellite channel, who took up the veil herself after a pilgrimage to Mecca six years ago. "The veiled woman can be stylish and hip." Adds Amina Shelbaya, whose Lips agency supplied most of the models for the show: "To be veiled does not mean to get fat and not care about your looks...
This week and next, thousands of movie lovers are flocking to their midsummer mecca on New York City?s Lower East Side. The New York Asian Film Festival, berthed at Anthology Film Archives, is unspooling 27 feature films (and two shorts) from Japan, India, Korea, Thailand and Malaysia. The partisan audiences may locate no masterpieces there, but they will be reminded that attending foreign films need not be a solemn duty. It can be an enthralling pleasure...
...ruling family and religious traditionalists in the kingdom. The Sauds get virtually limitless wealth, a healthy chunk of which they share with their dour clerical partners and their Wahhabist accountants. In exchange, the royals receive a stamp of religious approval, as the true protectors of the Holy Sites of Mecca and Medina, as well as an understanding that 25,000 or so members of the royal family can do, more or less, anything they please, while the country's 27 million citizens live under strict religious laws mandating traditional dress, shrouding of women, prohibitions against the consumption of alcohol...