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This unusual, timely and beautiful film, Journey to Mecca, presents a more sympathetic interpretation of Islam both to the West and to the East. It shows the profoundly devotional aspect of a religion that has been thoroughly demonized since the cataclysmic events of 9/11. The rituals of the pilgrimage that bring together literally millions of worshippers every year to Mecca, presume and proclaim “Peace” in the world. Peace is of the essence since the worshippers themselves come from entirely different backgrounds, from all colors, and all climates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...Anyone so deeply indebted to his youth will naturally be suspicious of change. In the '60s, the Beatles made Liverpool the world's pop-cultural Mecca, yet Davies sees "John, Paul, George and Ringo: as "not so much a musical phenomenon, more like a firm of provincial solicitors." The smooth crooners of the previous decade quickly faded, "the witty lyric and the well-crafted love song seeming as antiquated as antimacassars or curling tongs." As an appraiser of public buildings he is no less a conservative than Prince Charles. Davies rails against the New Brutalism, a style that incarcerated generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Time and the City: Terence Davies' Liverpool Memories | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...sense that something serious had befallen the entire country - not just Mexico City, Oaxaca and San Luis Potosi which originally reported outbreaks - has finally taken hold. When the weekend started, no one was certain what was happening or how they had to react. Indeed, the tourist mecca of Acapulco was partying on. I live in Mexico City and when I flew in for a wedding on Saturday, there were no health personnel at the airport, no pamphlets, no nurses, no questions except "where to?" (Read the five things you need to know about the swine flu outbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu: Mexico's Lost Weekend | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...senior on the verge of graduation, I feel like much of my world is simply going to be uprooted and transplanted to New York City after June 4. NYC is the Mecca of the social and economic lives of Harvard students in the real world: Not only is it perceived as being the natural—often default—next stop in the lives of the young graduates of elite colleges, but New York’s glossiness also indicates a sort of ultimate achievement of the cosmopolitan refinement and worldliness that Harvard students work so hard to cultivate...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: I ? NY | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

Khwaja said in a press release that his research will apply economics to study the social, cultural, and ethical outlooks of the pilgrimage to Mecca...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HKS Profs Named Carnegie Scholars | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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