Moscow Couriers Refuse to Deliver ‘Haram’ Food, Citing Religious Beliefs
Delivery couriers in Moscow have begun refusing to deliver food items deemed haram (forbidden) in Islam. Workers from delivery services are indicating that they are unable to deliver products prohibited by Islamic law — particularly dishes containing pork.
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A celebrated Bruin honors ‘the beauty, grace, power and wisdom of those who were here before us’
As a doctoral candidate in folklore and mythology at UCLA in the 1990s, Paul Apodaca focused his dissertation on the Cahuilla bird songs, a tradition that continues today among members of Native American Cahuilla tribes. The recipient of the award for Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year, he even invited modern-day bird singers to campus at UCLA’s annual Pow Wow. Despite the name, he explains, the songs are not about birds at all. (more…)
Seit zehn Jahren erforscht das Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik der Universität Freiburg Pop und Gesellschaft
Ob Hip-Hop der 2000er Jahre, Schlager der 1920er oder populäre Musik der Frühen Neuzeit – Popkultur hat ihre eigenen Formen und Funktionsweisen, in denen sich immer auch gesellschaftliche Fragen ausdrücken. Seit zehn Jahren erforscht und analysiert das Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (ZPKM) der Universität Freiburg die Rolle von populärer Musik in verschiedenen Gesellschaften: 2014 ging es aus dem bereits 1914 gegründeten Deutschen Volksliedarchiv hervor. (more…)
During his working trip to Dagestan, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the architectural and archaeological complex of the Naryn-Kala citadel and the Juma Mosque in Derbent that have federal monument status and are UNESCO World Heritage sites. (more…)
Between 17 and 28 April the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) will hold its 22nd session at the UN Headquarters in New York under the theme “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”. (more…)
Six Sufi masters: Khwaja Mu’in al-Din, Ghaus al-A’zam, Khwaja Qutb al-Din, Shaikh Mihr, Shah Sharaf Bu ‘Ali Qalandar and Sultan-ul-Mashaikh. (more…)
Not every serial killer should necessarily be either a social outcast or a sociopath. Some of them are good at disguise and may at times have a reputation of exemplary society members. Biographies of many famous serial killers of the USSR era testify to this.
Chikatilo helped to catch himself
Andrey Chikatilo, a serial killer from Rostov, committed his first crime in 1973, the last in 1990. Chikatilo killed 53 women and children in all that time. (more…)
One can get a glimpse of it from the memoir of famous French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904), written at the end of 1903, recalling his first meeting with another French painter Charles Jalabert in 1840: (more…)
