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Friday May 24, 2013

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Biennale’s Spiritual Solace Read more Magazines: Where the ‘Muslimah’ Speaks Read more Tracing the Pragaash: Hard-lines of Melophobia Read more A Recipe at Hand Read more A Political Myth-Making Read more Asghar Ali Engineer: An Incomplete Story Read more Life of Muhammad: A Critical Engagement Read more Etiquette of a Muslim Filmmaker Read more Dynamics of Information Ecology Read more A Dirge to English Muslim Magazines Read more

A Political Myth-Making

Author: K Shabin Muhammed

Post date: 16 Apr 2013 - 03:13

Indeed, the popular culture of Hollywood or the American global culture forces us to see people helpless. Only the US can help and protect them from any ‘monstrosities’. After the 9/11 attack they succeeded to make us believe that they are the global police all set for an agenda with the support of media.

Ben Affleck’s Argo was nominated for the best picture in 85th Academy Award of Oscar in 2012. The movie portrays the hostage crisis in Iran in 1979 during the Islamic revolution lead by Ayatulla Khomeini. The movie focused on the six American diplomats who escaped...

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Does the Big Screen Miss the Prophet?

Author: K Shabin Muhammed

Post date: 5 Feb 2013 - 03:47

Love and respect for the Prophet is part of the faith of Islam. There are so many representations of the Prophet in art and literature that it takes a voluminous space to chronicle them all. Resistance to the musical and literary representations from the Muslim orthodoxy has never been as vociferous as it has been to the visual representations. Though Jesus Christ has been essayed on screen many times- Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of the Christ and Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ are two remarkable examples-we can number the times the cinematograph got going on...

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The Willow Tree: A saga of sight and insight

Author: K Shabin Muhammed

Post date: 4 Jan 2013 - 02:46

In his Mathnawi, Rumi tells the story of a lover who goes to his beloved and knocks on the door: The beloved from behind the door asked: “Who is at the door?” The lover answered: ‘I.’ Disappointed, the beloved said. “Go away! It is not the proper time! Here is no place for such a raw fellow!” After several years of reflection, the lover returned and knocked at the door again. The beloved asked: ‘Who is at the door?’ This time the lover responded: ‘You! The one on this side of the door is also you!’ And it was then that...

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