KUWAIT CITY: From Dubai to Tunis, Euro 2016 football fever is sweeping the Arab world, filling cafes and restaurants and overshadowing the nightly television soap operas that normally dominate Ramadan viewing...
But this year, Ramadan coincides with the Euros which are another massive draw...
KARACHI: While the non-arrival of Indian actor-turned-political activist Anupam Kher for the 7th Karachi Literature Festival has stirred a debate lately, nothing will be felt more acutely than the absence of Urdu novelist, short story writer and columnist Intizar Husain who passed away just three days before the opening of the festival on Friday...
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KARACHI: Dusk had just fallen...
But in Karachi, writers and book readers totally eclipsed the planetary spectacle as soon as festivities of the 8th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) began on a temperate Friday evening...
KARACHI: As dusk fell over the port city on Sunday, the book readings, discussions and other learned sessions going on in the different rooms and halls of the Beach Luxury Hotel for the last three days were wrapped up...
As the carpets were being rolled up, the chairs stacked up and books about to be piled up and packed into boxes to be moved back to bookshops and godowns, the entire crowd tried to fit under a huge tent in the hotel...
KARACHI: There was a hint of summer in the air...
The balmy breeze that blows across the Beach Luxury Hotel in the month of February every year has almost become synonymous with the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF)...
KARACHI: When the last iteration of the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) took place in 2020, no one had an inkling that a year later words such as ‘online’ and ‘digital’ would be used by its organisers...
The coronavirus pandemic had hit closer to home, the first case had just surfaced and there was palpable concern for everyone’s safety in the air...
KARACHI: There was a hint of cool breeze, just a hint, enough to vindicate the balminess of the Karachi weather at this time of year...
As guests, especially writers and poets, started to step into the Beach Luxury Hotel to take part in the inauguration of the three-day 13th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) on Friday evening, things warmed up...
GENEVA: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for an immediate two-week humanitarian pause in Yemen to mark Ramadan as talks got underway in Geneva to try and resolve the bloody conflict...
“Ramadan begins in two days,” he said, stressing that the holy Muslim month should be a period for “harmony, peace and reconciliation”...
The man said he was only waiting for his flight to be announced...
Occupying a useful seat he was not generating a lira’s worth of business for the coffee kiosk...
RENNES: A man with known psychiatric problems stabbed a 19-year-old girl three times in western France on Tuesday, telling police he had heard voices ordering him to make a “sacrifice” for Ramazan, the Rennes prosecutor said...
The man had been in and out of psychiatric wards several times, the prosecutor said, adding that he told investigators he was being treated for schizophrenia and was supposed to receive an injection on...
PARIS: The Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who is being held in France over rape allegations by three women, has lost his bid for early release ahead of trial, his lawyer told AFP...
Judges had already refused bail for the 55-year-old Ramadan, who is being treated behind bars for multiple sclerosis, as well as a request for release on health grounds...
CAIR said the US District Court for Alaska had granted its request for an emergency temporary order requiring guards to provide adequate meals in accordance with government health guidelines...
Muslims currently marking the holy month of Ramazan go without food for around 18 hours in Anchorage...
Prosecutors in Geneva have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has been detained in France since February on separate rape charges, Swiss media reported on Sunday...
The Tribune de Geneve newspaper quoted Geneva's prosecutor's office spokesman Henri Della Casa as saying that authorities had decided to open a formal criminal inquiry into allegations that Ramadan raped a woman in...
PARIS: Leading Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, charged with raping two women in France, claimed on Monday that he had consensual sex with both of them after previously denying any physical contact...
Ramadan, a well-known TV commentator, has strongly denied accusations that he raped the women in hotel rooms as an attempted smear by his opponents...
Two Ramadan television dramas on a Saudi-controlled network have stirred controversy as they test public perceptions of quietly warming relations between the Gulf kingdom and Israel...
In another controversial scene, one of the Saudi characters justifies establishing trade ties with Israel, arguing that Palestinians are the real "enemy" for insulting the kingdom "day and night" despite decades of financial support...