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Argentina, Brazil team up for Kashmiri youth
In the land of cricket, football is the emerging passion
Over the last four years, Argentine national Juan Marcos Troia and his Brazilain wife Priscila Barros Pedroso have made Kashmir their home, despite hardships. The couple lives with their three daughters in a Srinagar who speak go to a local school and speak Urdu and Kashmiri, besides Spanish and Portuguese in pure Latin American accent. By their looks, they just pass off as any other Kashmiri.
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Greeks open doors, hearts for Muslims!
Church donates land for Muslim cemetery
Anna Stamou is a mother of two, a caring wife and author of a book. From her looks, she is just another European woman. Yet she is the only Greek female to have been honoured by the European Network of Muslim Entrepreneurs (CEDAR).
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‘Bread and Salt’ bring Egypt’s Christians, Muslims closer
Muslim Brotherhood, Copts promise peace amid fears of unrest
Large groups of young Egyptians, including Muslim Brotherhood members, gathered in Heliopolis, an upper class district of Cairo, on the Christian holiday of Good Friday.
While Christian compatriots commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Muslims volunteered to help with arrangements such as managing traffic and assisting visitors.
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Muslim guards Hindus in stereotyped Pakistan
Baloch spent life maintaining Hindu burial site
It may not sound unusual that Murad Bukhsh Baloch takes pride in his religion and work, both.
Baloch is a unique Muslim who serves as caretaker of Hindu cremation ground and graveyard, depicting harmonious coexistence in a heavily stereotyped country like Pakistan.
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Immigrant integration in the UK: the Nepalese way
Humble Nepalese initiative turns into a role model
In his first speech as prime minister on radicalization and the causes of terrorism, David Cameron criticized ‘state multiculturalism. He backs a policy of ‘muscular liberalism’ to enforce the values of equality.
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Encounter beneath Prophet Ibrahim’s tomb
Jews, Muslims discuss common ground in Hebron
It was a clear mellow winter’s day when the group of six Israelis Jews, five women and one man, made their way to Palestinian side of Hebron (Al-Khalil). An all male group of Palestinians hospitably greeted them at the entrance. And thus unfolded what was a slice of history. Since the outbreak of the second intifadah in 2001, an Israeli group was entering Palestinian side of Hebron for the first time!
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Giant leap of India’s ‘downtrodden’
Teenage community reporter confronts tyranny, corruption
Mukesh Rajak of Jagdishpur village in eastern India has unusual friends. They sit together on a Sunday afternoon, sipping tea and talking of the village school. The teachers are not regular in the class. Men in the mid and late 40s ask 18-year old Rajak to help.
He confidently advises them to “draft and sign an application for the district education officer, Jharkhand.
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Gypsy band sings to sleepy Marseille
Roma give final touches to Europe’s Cultural Capital for 2013
From the Old Port, le Vieux Port, to a web of narrow streets – the districts of Noailles and Belsunce – with its markets full of beautiful fresh fruits, vegetables and spices from all over the world; this is the pulsating intercultural heart of France.
With its street markets full of colours and fragrances of both sides of the Mediterranean course, Marseille is crowned with European Capital of Culture for 2013.
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Braving the odds for one Korea dream
Three decades of struggle fail to tire Kiyul Chung
Seated among a handful of his countrymen in small tents right in front of the United Nations headquarters, he drank salty water for 24 days, punching the air and holding placards in a move to oppose the admission of North and South Korea into the United Nations as separate nations.
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German hand in Jordan streets
Anselm Ibenj cherishes his ‘Abu Salim’ role
It is rare to see a foreigner speaking Arabic in Jordanian dialect fluently. Anselm Ibenj not only speaks the local language but also uses a Muslim name, Abu Salem. Ibenj, like all most Germans, has Caucasian skin and blue eyes but prefers being identified as part of Jordanian society.
"Sometimes I violate traffic rules but police forgive this European for fluently expressing himself in the local accent," he says with a naughty smile.
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