’Representing Islam: Comparative Perspectives’ is an international conference organised jointly by the Universities of Manchester and Surrey and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Britain. It has attracted over 100 eminent national and international speakers. Representations of ’Islam’ have a profound influence on political cultures and national identities, as well as on…
As more than a million New York City public school students returned to class yesterday, Maria A. Aviles, the principal of Junior High School 45 in East Harlem, greeted children and reassured parents – a familiar opening-day ritual for a year that promises broad changes for the nation’s largest school system and its principals. (…)…
The German police have arrested three Islamic militants suspected of planning large-scale terrorist attacks against several sites frequented by Americans, including discos, bars, airports, and military installations. Those arrested – two German citizens and a Turkish resident of Germany – were in advanced stages of plotting bomb attacks that could have been deadlier than the…
Four men went on trial Wednesday on charges of making bombs for a planned terror attack, exactly a year after they were arrested in a terror sweep in central Denmark. The defendants, who cannot be named under a court order, are accused of purchasing chemicals and laboratory equipment to produce explosives. All pleaded innocent. They…
