By Haidah Halid œHow dare you? These three daunting and threatening words spewed out of the lips of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg. A Swedish native who…
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Category: World
Haze disaster is worrying
By Amira Syafiqa When walking around passed by people in public, do you see them wearing masks? If you noticed them in masks, its because…
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Abdullah b. Rawahah as an Embodiment of Heavenly Justice
By Spahic Omer Abdullah b. Rawahah was a leading companion of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). He was from the rank of Ansar (the Helpers, or the…
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The Srebrenica Genocide: Lest We Forget
By Spahic Omer The Srebrenica genocide (genocid u Srebrenici), or massacre (masakr), was a massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), especially men and…
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Publish and Cherish
By Spahic Omer In the academic world, or academia, one frequently hears dispiriting comments to the effect that since not many people read academic research…
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Has Modernity Failed?
By Spahic Omer Modernity is a universal term. It is at once a historical period, worldview and ideology. As such, its got much in common…
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Has Modern Architecture Failed?
By Spahic Omer In the midst of all the developments associated with the emergence of modernity, architecture as a system of thought and a physical…
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Is Islam Against Modernity?
By Spahic Omer Modernity is an exclusively Western concept that has no equivalent in other cultures and civilisations. Linguistically, most world languages adopted the same…
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Sustainability and Piety
By Spahic Omer Sustainability in architecture is possible only when there is sustainability in values and philosophies that underpin the former, giving it its identity,…
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Need for Sustainable Architecture
By Spahic Omer People are both the creators and demolishers of civilisational accomplishments. They are the only beneficiaries of every great civilisational output. Similarly, people…
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