From the ISIS cookbook: Mushy date balls and misogyny
25 Comments Email Print ISIS have now published their own food recipes, straight out of Al-Zawra School, so sisters can…
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How to try a terrorist
22 Comments Email Print Confusions of identity mixed with the rhetoric of extremism have made it impossible for the ord…
Would we hang a 14-year-old 'terrorist'?
To forget the pain of deaths past, we must do some killing of our own. Executions are set to guide the plot of Pakistans latest ep…
A Saudi beheading, an IS beheading
The beheading took place in Makkah. A Burmese woman namedLaila Bin Abdul Muttalib Basim, who lived in Saudi Arabia, was first drag…
King Salman's shady past
205 Comments Email Print With the US and Pakistan both in Saudi Arabias figurative pocket, King Salman is set to likely…
The bride of Daish
The story wasreported inCNN. It took place in the portion of Syria now controlled by the Islamic State or Daish. There, 26-year-ol…
Food Stories: Bhagaray baigan
Growing up I always heard mykhaloo(uncle on mothers side) refer tobaigunasbay guun(literally meaning that eggplant is not praisewo…
Food Stories: Mutton karahi
Let the meat eating begin! My first recollection ofBakr Eidcelebrations (Eid-ul-Azha) is from an October of the 70s; I was five or…
Food Stories: The mithai platter
7 Comments Email Print Laddus are associated with festivity; so much so that happiness is often defined as: Dil mein la…
Food Stories: Haleem
Every year the coming of Muharram meant a month ofhaleemeating and Nani Amma made a delicious wheat, barley, lentil and meathaleem…
