Tag Archives: Life

Purdah and Cornelia Sorabji: First Female Barrister in India

01/02/2012

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Female Barrister in Wig

Reblogged from tashalaw: Another very impressive female legal pioneer is Cornelia Sorabji, who took her law exams in India as early as 1899. She became involved in legal advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins (see below), these were women who, under Hindu law, were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world and were exempt from appearing in [...]

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Honor killings are murder not an Islamic teaching

31/01/2012

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Broken Shaden

Reblogged from Moral Outrage: Leading Muslim thinkers wholeheartedly insist that “honor murders” have no place and no support in Islam. “There is nothing in the Quran that justifies honor killings. There is nothing that says you should kill for the honor of the family,” said Taj Hargey, director of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford [...]

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Nollywood | Bollywood

25/01/2012

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Source: Jaguda.com

Lagos, Nigeria is one of the most populace cities in Africa. It is also the seat of the Nigerian film industry which began in 1992 and is known as Nollywood. It is the third largest film industry in the world after India‘s Bollywood and Hollywood in the U.S. Nollywood produces 2,500 films a year most [...]

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Population Me

21/01/2012

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homeless man on bench

I first heard this song as I was driving home the day I lost my job. My position was abolished due to a ‘reduction in work force.’ I was comfortably numb as I packed the detritus of an eight year tenure into the boxes maintenance provided. I hastily bid adieu to the people with whom [...]

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