36 relations: A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance, Abdolkarim Soroush, Al-Nusra Front, Anwar al-Bunni, Battle of Mosul (2016–2017), Charles Baker (actor), Cornelius Ryan Award, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Hadi Khamenei, History of Iraq (2003–2011), Hussein al-Musawi, Islamic Jihad Organization, Islamism, Kiosk (band), List of After Words interviews first aired in 2008, List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1989, List of The Colbert Report episodes (2008), List of University of Michigan alumni, Mozambican War of Independence, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood of Syria, Parvez Sharma, Portuguese Colonial War, Real Time with Bill Maher (season 6), Real Time with Bill Maher (season 7), Riad Seif Forum, Robin Wright (disambiguation), Shaba I, Shaquille O'Neal, The Michigan Daily, U.S. raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil, United States Institute of Peace, Wright, 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, 1983 Kuwait bombings, 1987 Mecca incident.
A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance
A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance is the first book by Parvez Sharma, released on August 15, 2017, by publisher BenBella Books.
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Abdolkarim Soroush
Abdolkarim Soroush (عبدالكريم سروش; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran and Imam Khomeini International University during Islamic regime since he only has a chemistry BS. He is arguably the most influential figure in the religious intellectual movement of Iran. Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. He was also affiliated with other prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, the Leiden-based International Institute as a visiting professor for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. He was named by TIME as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2005, and by Prospect magazine as one of the most influential intellectuals in the world in 2008. Soroush's ideas, founded on Relativism, prompted both supporters and critics to compare his role in reforming Islam to that of Martin Luther in reforming Christianity.
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Al-Nusra Front
Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (جبهة النصرة.), known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (جبهة فتح الشام, transliteration: Jabhat Fataḥ al-Šām) after July 2016, and also described as al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, was a Salafist jihadist organization fighting against Syrian government forces in the Syrian Civil War.
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Anwar al-Bunni
Anwar al-Bunni (أنور البني, born 1959) is a Syrian human rights lawyer who has defended clients such as Riad al-Turk, Riad Seif, the owner of The Lamplighter, (an independent newspaper shut down by the Syrian government), Kurdish protesters, and "dozens of others." Al-Bunni was born in Hama to a Christian family active in dissident leftist politics.
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Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)
The Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) (معركة الموصل, Ma‘rakat al-Mawṣil; شەڕی مووسڵ, Şeriy Mûsil) was a major military campaign launched by the Iraqi Government forces with allied militias, the Kurdistan Regional Government, and international forces to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which had seized the city in June 2014.
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Charles Baker (actor)
Charles Edward Baker (born February 27, 1971 is an American actor, writer, and director. He is known for playing Skinny Pete on the AMC series Breaking Bad, and currently has a recurring role on the NBC series The Blacklist.
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Cornelius Ryan Award
The Cornelius Ryan Award is given for "best nonfiction book on international affairs" by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC).
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Countdown with Keith Olbermann is an hour-long weeknight news and political commentary program hosted by Keith Olbermann that aired on MSNBC from 2003–2011 and Current TV from 2011–2012.
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Hadi Khamenei
Hojatoleslam Hadi Khamenei (born 1947) is an Iranian reformist politician, mojtahed and linguist.
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History of Iraq (2003–2011)
The history of Iraq from 2003 to 2011 is characterized by a large United States military deployment on Iraqi territory, beginning with the U.S.-led invasion of the country in March 2003 which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein and ending with the departure of US troops from the country in 2011 (though the Iraq War that commenced in 2003 continued and subsequently intensified during 2013).
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Hussein al-Musawi
Husayn Al-Musawi (also Hussein Musawi) is a Lebanese who founded the now-dissolved pro-Iranian Islamist militia Islamic Amal in 1982.
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Islamic Jihad Organization
The Islamic Jihad Organization – IJO (حركة الجهاد الإسلامي., Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) or Organisation du Jihad Islamique (OJI) in French, but best known as "Islamic Jihad" (Arabic: Jihad al-Islami) for short, was a Shia militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War.
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Islamism
Islamism is a concept whose meaning has been debated in both public and academic contexts.
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Kiosk (band)
Kiosk (کیوسک) is a rock band formed in Tehran in 2003, known for its blend of musical styles and its wry lyrics confronting Iranian cultural angst.
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List of After Words interviews first aired in 2008
After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV.
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List of Booknotes interviews first aired in 1989
Booknotes is an American television series on the C-SPAN network hosted by Brian Lamb, which originally aired from 1989 to 2004.
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List of The Colbert Report episodes (2008)
This is a list of episodes for The Colbert Report in 2008.
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List of University of Michigan alumni
There are more than 500,000 living alumni of the University of Michigan.
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Mozambican War of Independence
The Mozambican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front or FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), and Portugal.
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Muslim Brotherhood
The Society of the Muslim Brothers (جماعة الإخوان المسلمين), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood (الإخوان المسلمون), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928.
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Muslim Brotherhood of Syria
The Muslim Brotherhood of Syria (الإخوان المسلمون في سوريا Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimun fi Suriya), formerly the Islamic Socialist Front, has been described as "a branch" of the Sunni Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, and as "very loosely affiliated" to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
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Parvez Sharma
Parvez Sharma is a New York-based Indian filmmaker, author, and journalist.
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Portuguese Colonial War
The Portuguese Colonial War (Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertação), was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974.
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Real Time with Bill Maher (season 6)
This is a list of episodes from the sixth season of Real Time with Bill Maher.
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Real Time with Bill Maher (season 7)
This is a list of episodes from the seventh season of Real Time with Bill Maher.
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Riad Seif Forum
The Riad Seif Forum (also called Forum for National DialogueWright, Robin, Dreams and Shadows, the Future of the Middle East, Penguin Press, 2008, p.224) is or was a political forum, or muntadat, founded by "businessman-turned-dissident" Riad Seif, promoting political debate and freedom in Syria.
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Robin Wright (disambiguation)
Robin Wright (born 1966), is an American film actress.
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Shaba I
Shaba I was a conflict in Zaire's Shaba (Katanga) Province lasting from March 8, 1977, to May 26, 1977.
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Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6, 1972), nicknamed "Shaq", is an American retired professional basketball player currently serving as a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA.
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The Michigan Daily
The Michigan Daily is the daily student newspaper of the University of Michigan.
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U.S. raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil
The US raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil refers to the events of 11 January 2007 when the US military raided the Iranian Liaison Office (which was in the process of becoming accredited as an officially recognized consulate) in Arbil, Iraq, ostensibly to detain two senior Iranian officials but capturing five mid-level diplomats instead.
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United States Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American non-partisan, independent, federal institution that provides analysis of and is involved in conflicts around the world.
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Wright
Wright is an occupational surname originating in England.
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1983 Beirut barracks bombings
The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was a suicide attack that occurred on October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War.
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1983 Kuwait bombings
The 1983 Kuwait bombings were attacks on six key foreign and Kuwaiti installations on 12 December 1983, two months after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.
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1987 Mecca incident
The 1987 Mecca incident was a clash between Shia pilgrim demonstrators and the Saudi Arabian security forces, during the Hajj pilgrimage; it occurred in Mecca on 31 July 1987 and led to the deaths of over 400 people.
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