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Salman Ahmad and Melissa Etheridge: Ring The Bells
I know I am late to this….but just didn’t get to it. Here’s the awesome Salman with Melissa in “Ring the Bells”. Beautiful song. cool stuff….Somehow so apt for what… more →
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Salman Ahmad and Melissa Etheridge: Ring The Bells
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 9 months ago: I know I am late to this….but just didn’t get to it. Here’s the awesome Salman wit … more →
Loss of a giant: Poet Ahmed Faraz passes away
Bilal Zuberi wrote 1 year ago: Only a few people can touch other peoples’ hearts in such personal ways as Ahmed Faraz did ove … more →
A strange commonality between the beauties and the geeks
Bilal Zuberi wrote 1 year ago: Strange but true….I know of a friend (classical opera singer) stuck in NYC without work since … more →
Tango: Beautiful
Bilal Zuberi wrote 1 year ago: Dedicated to my Tango-dancing professor friend… Keep it up, my man! … more →
Wear Sunscreen: Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 1 year ago: This essay by Mary Schmich was published in the Chicago Tribune in 1997. It was rumored to be a comm … more →
Baby Arab Dabke - how cute!
Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: A dear friend, who is herself pregnant with a baby girl, just sent this. How cute is this? … W … more →
Ojos Asi
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: It’s been a while since I wrote something on a lighter note on this blog… Here is a favo … more →
Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: My dear friend, and a mentor, Pervez Hoodbhoy just guided me to an article he has written that got p … more →
A beautiful saying by Rumi
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: I tried to find Him on the Christian Cross, but He was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus … more →
Palestinian Dabke: at Harvard
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: L started doing Dabke quite a few years ago in Boston. She and her friends in Boston formed a Dabke … more →
Alamgir: Albela Rahi
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: Bilal Zuberi A young boy was born in 1954 in what is now Bangladesh. At the age of ~15, he moved to … more →
International Mystic Music Sufi Festival in Karachi, Pakistan
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: I had heard of Doctors without Borders and Reporters without Borders, but when I saw a headline in a … more →
Ann Coulter : Gone too far?
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: I just saw this cartoon in my email from Slate.com. What is noticeable is not that pundits are sayin … more →
Picture(s) of the day: The Light Within
Bilal Zuberi wrote 2 years ago: I am mesmerized by this picture. I cannot thank Adil enough for bringing this to my notice. See what … more →
Muslim Nobel Prize Winners
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 3 years ago: Nobel Prizes are somehow among the very few annual events that I anxiously wait for. In days leading … more →
How did the open-source journalism experiment work out?
Bilal Zuberi wrote 3 years ago: I noted last week that Wired magazine was running an experiment on wiki-based journalism. While a ma … more →
Paulo Coelho on entrepreneurship
Bilal Zuberi wrote 3 years ago: Paulo Coelho is among the literary giants of present day. At least I think so, and not least because … more →
Arna's Children. Palestinian lives and their struggles.
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 3 years ago: L, R and I got together last night to watch Arna’s Children. It was not long before we lost an … more →
Paris Hilton - saying her 'namaz'
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Bilal Zuberi wrote 3 years ago: Not many self-respecting people would acknowledge knowing much about Paris Hilton, besides what they … more →
