Marriage Mosul-style: love in the time of the caliphate
Despite restrictions of life under extremist rule and an uncertain future, locals in Mosul are still getting married. In fact, rumour has it that even the leader of the Islamic State group recently joined them in matrimonial bliss.
It has been almost ten months to the day since the extremist group known as the Islamic State took control of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. And although the group has committed crimes against locals and forced the city’s people to adhere to a strict set of rules, it is also true that many in Mosul believe that life must go on.
One of the most obvious signs of this is the fact that people of Mosul are still marrying.
Source: Informed Comment
Calls for hashish to be legalized in Egypt
he Cairo and Giza Tobacco Merchants Association submitted a proposal to the Cabinet Sunday to legalize the use and trade of hash, arguing the measure could prove an effective means to reduce the state budget deficit within a few years, according to Al-Masry Al-Youm.
In a statement on its Facebook page, association head Osama Salama said he submitted the proposal to the Legislative Reform Committee headed by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab.
Source: Egyptian Streets
What was behind the ethnic cleansing of Armenians?
n 1915, the Ottoman state, in the midst of World War I, took the fateful decision of deporting all Armenians in Anatolia to eastern Syria. An entire people was forced to migrate overnight, and many of them, perhaps a million people, perished on the road due to starvation, disease and massacres by locals. There is no doubt this enormous tragedy deserves remembrance and empathy today — and we Turks must be much more considerate about it than we have been over the past century.
Source: Al Monitor
