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Arab League welcomes prosecutor’s appointment(Comments Off)

April 5, 2009

The Arab League has welcomed the appointment of international prosecutor for probing the Israel’s aggression and war crimes.

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Madhyamam: An Indian Muslim Media Success Story

Kerala’s Muslims, who form roughly a quarter of the state’s population, are among the most literate Muslim communities in India. A major reason for, as well as a consequence of, the community’s high literacy rate is the thriving Muslim-owned Malayalam press. Today, literally hundreds of magazines, journals and newspapers are brought out by various Kerala Muslim organizations.

Nigar Ataulla: India’s largest English Islamic magazine’s woman editor

She isn’t the stereotypical “Muslim woman”, draped in a burqa or kept confined to her home, that the “mainstream” media portrays Muslim women as and as traditionalist Muslim clerics would like them to be. Nigar Ataulla is the editor of India’s largest-selling English-language Islamic magazine, Islamic Voice, based in Bangalore. She enjoys the enviable distinction of being one of the few women editors of any major religious periodical in the country.