Historic landmarks in Iraq’s Mosul are reopening as the city heals from Islamic State devastation
For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...
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After the Eaton Fire destroyed Altadena’s first mosque, its leaders focus on rebuilding
Now, all that remains of Masjid Al Taqwa — the first mosque in the Altadena-Pasadena area — are soot, ash and charred twisted skeletons of chairs. A sign proclaiming the mosque’s name stands ...
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WG Sebald’s Silent Catastrophes — literary essays on Austrian writers
If you don’t want to sound academic, don’t subtitle an essay ‘On the Dialectics of Eschatology in Stifter and Handke’ A sense of Heimat, or homeland, is also key — and indisputably ...