“IT WILL BE more of a festival feel,” said the organiser of the Salaam Aleikum concert, Hamida Aman, when first asked about the event taking place at Zabeel Park from 7pm this Friday. “People in Dubai ...

At a recent stand-up comedy show at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, headliner Ahamed Weinberg welcomed the crowd with “Salaam aleikum.” About half of the audience responded “Aleikum salaam,” ...

I could not help but feel touched the first time a New Zealand friend said salaam aleikum to me. The familiarity of the greeting, and the warmth with which it was said, made me feel a little closer to ...

He has sold more than 8 million records, recorded music with James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and was one of a select group of artists (including Joan Baez, Mick Fleetwood, Gloria Gaynor and Country Joe ...

At a Kremlin reception a top Russian leader said to India’s Prime Minister Nehru: “Your Excellency, we Russians make very good friends and nothing can separate us, but we are bad enemies, too—quite ...

Robert Fisk says how when he greeted Laden with 'Salaam aleikum', he didn't get the expected reply. LONDON: In Robert Fisk's new book, The Great War of Civilisation', the author describes how when he ...

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President Obama spoke to the Muslim world in a heavily watched speech in Cairo, Egypt, and it leads almost all the papers. In the words of the Washington Post, it was “a direct appeal to the Islamic ...