I looked around me. The sight of masses of people walking around in draping black garments, sitting down on fine Persian rugs, reciting, reading and contemplating …
Travel
Climbing to the roof of Africa
Africa is a continent which evokes images of wild animals, great tribes, fierce weather and beautiful landscapes. This was the backdrop against which I began a trek to climb its tallest mountain: Mount Kilimanjaro.
Kilimanjaro is an inactive volcano in north-east Tanzania, …
Travelling to Karbala
The tragedy of Imam Hussain (as) holds huge importance within Shia Islam. Sayed Mahdi Modarresi reflects on his recent journey to Karbala
Several years ago I met an Australian who had converted to Islam. Though he must have struggled with many intellectual …
A very long Lebanese summer
Landing, for the first time on my own, in the city of Beirut, I could not feel further from ‘aloneness’. With the rays of the bright sun flooding the plane and the echo of excitement disseminating through the entire carriage, I was …
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