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UAE promotes culture of tolerance through Bangkok workshop
Published on 07/07/2025
» The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Embassy in Bangkok, in collaboration with Krirk University, hosted a cultural workshop aimed at promoting tolerance and peaceful coexistence, as part of its broader efforts to strengthen cultural ties and mutual understanding with Thailand.
Marking Ramadan at Canada's 'Little Mosque on the Tundra'
AFP, Published on 04/03/2025
» INUVIK, Canada - Muslims who gathered at the Midnight Sun Mosque in the Canadian Artic to break the Ramadan fast this week enjoyed home-cooked Sudanese food in a tranquil setting with breathtaking surroundings.
Andalusian dreams
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/02/2024
» Two Middle Eastern tourists looked excited as they held up a phone to an exquisitely carved arabesque in Nasrid Palace at the Alhambra. No, they're not taking photos. They're comparing the Arabic text on their screen with the 8th century stone calligraphy. I hear them mumble in Arabic -- here's the translation:
Rushdie releases new novel, six months after knife attack
AFP, Published on 06/02/2023
» LONDON: Six months after being stabbed, British author Salman Rushdie on Tuesday publishes his new novel "Victory City", an "epic tale" of a 14th-century woman who defies a patriarchal world to rule a city.
Deep in the paradox
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/05/2022
» In Cairo, a religious student at the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic University is recruited by secret police to infiltrate a Muslim Brotherhood cell. In Mashad, a holy city in Iran, a serial killer prowls a seedy suburb and strangles head-scarfed prostitutes. In the first film, bloodlust officials torture dissidents with abandon. In the second film, religion is evoked and the name of God is cited as a justification for murder. This begs the obvious question: Will Boy From Heaven be banned in Egypt, and Holy Spider Iran?
A new spirit of Malaysian horror
Life, Story: Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/06/2021
» The Malaysian film Roh (on Netflix) is a pagan horror with clear Koranic references, a work of foreboding menace set entirely in a nameless forest somewhere deep in the Malay peninsula.
TAT extends 'Phuket Great Time' offer
Life, Published on 11/02/2021
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand's (TAT) Phuket office has extended the "Phuket Great Time" campaign.
Terrain for talent
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 11/12/2019
» For nine days, Malaysia's capital city Kuala Lumpur was ablaze with creativity, representing art in all forms at Urbanscapes 2019, the longest-running creative arts festival that celebrated its 17th edition late last month.
Rescuing the past
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 10/07/2019
» A team of researchers controlled a drone to take pictures of the 56m-tall bell-shaped stupa of Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in Nakhon Si Thammarat. It slowly flew in a cycle from the base to the top of the golden spine while capturing the high-resolution images of the structure.
Looking for redemption
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/05/2019
» Young Ahmed believes he's a true Muslim, one of the few in his Muslim neighbourhood in Belgium. He refuses to shake hands with women, quotes verses from the Koran, berates his mother when she drinks, and condemns Jews and pretty much everyone else as infidels. Fellow Belgian-Muslims who do not subscribe to his imam's rigid interpretation of Islam are branded heretics unworthy of uttering the prophet's name. Young Ahmed, 13, is packed tight on the assembly line of Islamic radicalisation, fired up by a sense of self-righteousness so extreme and narrow that we wonder if it leaves room for something else in him, like love, forgiveness or humanity.