How Central Asian camels met East African refugees in rural Norway…
A small community in wintry Norway wants to help a group of East African refugees back to work by importing a flock of camels.
The local refugee council says it will allow refugees with nomadic background to use their camel-farming skills while also […]

For those interested, here is some background info on the on-going festival from various sources. IslamOnline says:
The word `Eid comes from the word `awd meaning “return.” `Eid means a specific kind of return: days in which the previous state of prosperity of a community returns after the miseries it was facing, which are known […]

In response to this IHT editorial mentioned on this blog before, here some of my thoughts:
There some kind of feeling of grandeur in the city of Almaty.
Yes. A sense of grandeur or… a complex?
“Almaty” badly digested the impoverishment right after the Soviet crash and now that things take off again it tries to compensates […]