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Kronemer, who collaborated with co-executive producer Michael Wolfe on this documentary and their previous Unity Productions Foundation work, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, learned about Prince Among Slaves while discussing the idea of a project based on the spiritual lives of slaves. After coming across Alford's book and contacting him, the two attended a reunion of Rahman's descendants in Natchez. That meeting, and subsequent research, introduced them to examples of African slaves who were able to hold on to their cultural and religious identities and use their educations and practical skills to help in the development...
...corporate circles, the "double bottom line"?reaping profit and doing social good?is all the rage. Muhammad Yunus, the microfinancier who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for helping prove that making tiny loans to poor people can be profitable, says we should go further. In CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY: SOCIAL BUSINESS AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM, he sketches out a new type of company, one that exists only to better people's lives. Investors who start such a firm would be repaid their initial stake once the company turned a profit, but after that...
...coordinated effort, the attacks on the forts in South Waziristan came at the same time as the electrical grid and another fort in neighboring North Waziristan came under attack. The upsurge of attacks in an area that has been relatively calm of late rings alarm bells for terrorism analyst Muhammad Amir Rana, director of the Pakistan Institute For Peace Studies. "We are seeing this now, simultaneous attacks from different regions. This is a strong indication that different groups are working together. They are coordinating attacks, sharing the same objective...
...linked groups have launched suicide attacks against military and civilian targets. Such attacks have undermined Musharraf, who had long portrayed himself as the one man capable of keeping Pakistan stable and safe from extremism. But instead of coming down harder on extremists, he suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who threatened to derail Musharraf's bid for a second term as President on constitutional grounds. Within weeks, a nationwide protest movement sprang up, with tens of thousands of middle-class professionals taking to the streets. Musharraf lost his case against the judge in the Supreme Court, and Chaudhry...
...Several months later, HIS members grew upset after The Harvard Salient republished Danish cartoons that had sparked protests across the Muslim world for their parodies of the Prophet Muhammad...