I’m Afraid of a Zionist Holocaust: Alan Hart

Interview | Alan Hart | Muhammed Noushad ALAN HART had been an author and activist on the West Asian geopolitical crisis, for several decades. He wrote books exposing Zionism and campaigned for a peaceful solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. A British journalist, broadcaster, scholar and activist, Alan Hart died in January 2018, aged 75. In this long interview, which was

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K.K Muhammad Abdul Kareem: Treasurer of Mappila History

Obituary of Kerala Muslim chronicler and renowned historian KK Muhammad Abdul Kareem; written in 2005. Historians become histories very rarely; Keedakkattu Kavungalakkandiyil Mohammed Abdul Kareem – Kareem master, as he was lovingly called by his disciples and friends – but was that. Writing history was not a profession for him, it was a mission: to painstakingly search the roots of

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Layla M: Humanising Radicalised European Muslim Youth

Layla M | Film Review by MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. To have a radicalized young Muslim girl as the protagonist in an international cinema, without being judgmental, is not easy. Being sympathetic to her journeys, and humanizing her fate is extremely challenging. That is what Layla M almost successfully does. Dutch filmmaker Milke de Jong’s Layla M tries to subtly humanize the

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Dr. Basheer Ahmed Muhyidin: The Kerala Scholar Who Translated Quran into Two African Languages

Obituary With the demise of Dr. Sheikh Basheer Ahammed Muhyidin Al-Azhari, the Islamic world has lost a great Quran scholar, translator and preacher. It’s nearly impossible to introduce Dr. Basheer Ahammed Muhidin in one word: one of the great scholars of Islam of our times, an enthusiastically hard-working translator and interpreter of Quran into three foreign languages other than English.

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Remembering Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait

Obituary Veteran political leader Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait died on April 27, 2005, aged 83. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD met Sait saheb in Kochi and Bangalore several times for a detailed biographical interview, which was published by Thejas fortnightly in three issues. This was an obituary written for The Milli Gazzette.  Superlatives are acceptable when they’re attributed to real people. The legendary political

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