Borat’s Kazakh is actually Hebrew
Guardian Film: Secret of Borat's fluent Kazakh – it's Hebrew From the Guardian website: not only is the "Kazakh" spoken by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat actually Hebrew, but the film is full of...
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Alice Walker and her views on Muslim women
Guardian Unlimited: No retreat Sara Wajid interviews the novelist Alice Walker, best known for writing The Color Purple and – uh, not much else. They discuss the recent elections, 9/11 and the reaction to...
It’s hideous … and brainless
Apologies to anyone who's lost their lunch at the sight of this … I've seen many pictures of this dreadful "sculpture" and it's one of the most hideous human models I've seen anywhere. Here's...
British Museum hosts Islamic art exhibition
BBC NEWS: The word in contemporary Islamic art The British Museum is putting on an exhibition of modern “Islamic art”, that is to say, Middle Eastern art since the 1980s, which the Museum has...
Not a good career for a Muslima
The BBC is reporting on a Muslim woman who wears hijab and whose aunt is an actress in Iran and wants to make it on the stage or screen here. I don’t see how...
Yvonne Ridley on Sami Yusuf
Pop Culture in the Name of Islam – MuslimsWeekly Yvonne Ridley has a go at Sami Yusuf and his over-enthusiastic female fans who acted like teenage boy-band fans even though some of them were...
Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs (or: Don’t Give That Girl a Pen)
OK, who hasn't heard the single by Pink (or P!nk as it appears on the album covers, but for the benefit of anyone listening to this with Jaws or similar software rather than reading...
Saudis offer funds to repair Delhi Jami’a mosque
An interesting story I found on the BBC's website: the king of Saudi Arabia offering to do much-needed repairs to the Jama Mosque in Delhi. The imam has advised the Saudis to approach the...
Director: Tamburlaine not censored
I'm not sure how many people saw the play or even heard about it (I didn't), but this past week there's been a big controversy over the "censorship" of the Christopher Marlowe play Tamburlaine....
Zardad’s Dog is on display
Anyone who saw the shortlisted pieces for last year's Turner Prize might have noticed that part of one of the exhibits was off display. The exhibit was by Langlands and Bell and consisted of...