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Burleigh's latest book is The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox.
New information in the Shaima Alawadi murder case in El Cajon, Calif., suggests that the family was cracking over a forced marriage for daughter Fatima, 17, and that Alawadi herself was preparing to divorce her husband. If female freedom turns out to be at the heart of the murder, it will highlight not so much the [...]
Forty thousand Iraqis live in El Cajon, California, where this week, Shaima Al Awadi, a devout Muslim mother of five, died after being beaten inside her home with a tire iron and left next to note reading “Go back to your country, you terrorist.” Coming on the heels of the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida, there [...]
Fans of the Olympics have seen unusual athletes engaging in some odd sports over the years. In 1912, there was the Glima competition — a form of Icelandic wrestling in which competitors wore leather straps around their waists and thighs which opponents grabbed to score takedowns. Other Olympians have engaged in fishing, ballooning, “skijoring” (races [...]
CAIRO — Salafis are conservative Muslims who have been known to call for such things as public gender segregation, women excluded from politics and the outlawing of alcohol. They also have a newly legal political party in Egypt that won 25% of the seats in the recent Parliamentary elections — the country’s first elections since [...]
An attractive married couple with all the badges of mid-life success — jobs, car, private school, nice apartment — have lost their love to stubbornness, resentment and the grinding duties of a demented elderly parent and a pubescent daughter under the same roof. None of that will keep them together. The characters in writer-director Asgha [...]
