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...future of women’s rights in Iraq appears promisinag, two former government ministers told a small group of students and faculty in the Lowell House Junior Common Room this past Thursday. Former Iraq Minister of Municipalities and Public Works Nesreen Barwari and former Minister of the Environment Mishkat Al-Moumin discussed their personal experiences with women’s issues in Iraq and fielded questions from the audience during the panel discussion titled “What about Iraq’s Women?” Barwari, a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government and a fellow...
Islamic tradition has always extended charity to diplomats and wayfarers. According to the Mishkat-ul-Mas-abih, a standard Hadith text, an enemy courier named Abu Rafi converted to Islam, but Muhammad insisted he return to his tribe so that the Prophet might avoid even a faint suspicion that he had taken Rafi as a hostage. Muhammad declared flatly, "I do not break treaties, nor do I make prisoners of envoys." The Koran 9:6 insists that even a religious enemy be granted asylum and conveyed to safety...
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