Word: rana
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...debate over Rana Irfan's frequent trips back home to India took years to resolve. She enjoyed them, but her husband Kareem found them unnecessary. Eventually the issue was resolved in Kareem's favor, as are many between them. Their marriage, says Rana, 37, a spirited and sophisticated native of Bombay, is based on "consultation," but in the end, "someone has to take charge. That is my husband." It says as much in the Koran...
...course, the back story is different. Rana's marriage to Kareem was arranged during a visit to the U.S. when she was 21. Engagement followed their second meeting; "he looked like a good chap," she says, laughing. She frames her American experience as a shedding of limiting Indian assumptions for a liberating Islamic understanding. Her upbringing taught women "to take care of our husbands." But as she studied the Koran with several (female) teachers here, "I learned more and more about my rights as a woman. I don't do the housework now because I have...
Those trying to imagine the future of Muslim feminism might keep an eye on Rana and Kareem's daughter Zuha, 13. In some ways, she out-observes her mom. Rana did not wear the hijab regularly before Zuha, who attends an Islamic private school, put on the pressure. "I would come to pick her up, and she would say, 'Mother, you're embarrassing me by not wearing the veil.'" But Zuha is also a budding hoops star, with shelves full of Nancy Drew and Harry Potter--not Britney Spears but hardly subservient role models. Zuha's marriage will be arranged...
...Cola, he was ready for some gossip. He was involved in chitchat about cholesterol and gout when Dipendra returned, dressed in commando fatigues and carrying two assault rifles, and strode toward him. "Dipendra just looked at his father?he said nothing?and squeezed the trigger once," says Ravi Shumshere Rana, 77, Dipendra's uncle, who was standing next to the King when he was shot. "The King stood there for a few seconds after the firing and then slowly he sat down on the ground." Blood appeared on the King's right shoulder and began to spread. "It was about...
...table in a room that could accommodate 50 people, its pink walls hung with temple and landscape paintings. After pouring himself another drink, he began arguing with his parents, shouting at his mother, Queen Aiswarya, who didn't approve of the Crown Prince's romance with longtime paramour Devyani Rana, 23, the daughter of a former Foreign Minister of Nepal. The Crown Prince was furious that his family wanted him to marry Priyanka Shaha, a princess of royal blood. His sister Shruti scolded him to "stop slurring your words! You're the future King...