Word: rahimi
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...they are also very important Islamic themes, though rarely ever associated with Islam either by the media here, or by those outspoken violent agents who pull the world’s attention to themselves with their violence and their claim to represent Islam,” says Dr. Sadeq Rahimi, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.Passion fills the images of meditational prayer or whirling dance. Motion enlivens each image as tresses fly in rapturous movement. Yet despite the perceptible presence of spirituality, the images are personal and human. These people are in simple rooms, often in simple...
...Game, greatgametravel.com. Its mission is to give visitors a taste of the people and culture that made this city a vital crossroads of Asia and Europe for more than 5,000 years. "Even the foreigners who have lived here for years have no idea what Kabul is," says Jamshid Rahimi, a Great Game guide. "They get picked up from their guesthouse, taken to work in an office, they eat in the foreign restaurants and they go home again. Our city has so much more to offer than that...
...Finding beauty amid the bomb craters takes a little work. But with the help of native guides such as Rahimi, Great Game founders Jonathan Bean and Andre Mann, who fell in love with the region as backpackers in the late 1990s, have developed a daylong itinerary that encompasses the city's 5th century foundations, its role as a Silk Road caravansary, its 16th century revival under the great Mughal Emperor Babur and its recent troubles. Encircled by the snowcapped Hindu Kush, Kabul is a small city, with its history compressed. As a result, Buddhist stupas are hidden in Muslim graveyards...
...tour starts at the hilltop mausoleum of the father of former Afghan King Zahir Shah. Kabul's neighborhoods, both modern and ancient, unfurl in all directions, and Rahimi points at landmarks to illustrate his narrative. Gesturing to the majestic ruins of the 5th century Bala Hissar citadel and the crumbling city wall, he describes the successive waves of invaders that sought to make Kabul their own. Shafiqullah Zarif, Great Game's chief security officer, who also doubles as a guide, picks up the tale with the Soviet invasion and the subsequent civil war. As the local Red Cross security chief...
...afternoon, the tour takes in the mausoleum of 18th century ruler Timur Shah, as well as the Shah-do-Shamshira Mosque. En route to the tour's last stop-the renovated gardens and tomb of Babur, who asked that his remains be buried in his favorite city-Rahimi points out the stadium where the Taliban beheaded murderers and stoned adulterers. Violent, summary justice is what many people would think of when it comes to this city. But these days, Rahimi says, the stadium is used for sports once more, and is where the country's 2008 Olympic athletes are being...