May 2009
40 posts
Lovelorn Iraqi Men Call on a Wartime Skill - NYTimes.com
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Some rejected suitors take out their frustration with homemade bombs, Iraqi police say.
Got a few Love I.E.D’s to send out myself…
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Taqwacores on NBC Nightly News
Photos from under the floorboards – album review →
Wendy Hsu at YellowBuzz reviewed The Kominas wildnights in guantanamo bay CD and uploaded photos from our basement gig in Lowell.
Disclaimers about the review: Arjun and Karna are not Hindu. We…
Better than a thousand years as a jack ass →
Love and martyrdom are the main themes of poetry in Punjabi, and from the looks of it, most of South Asia. While in Europe the political institutions killed poets to obscure their work, in South…
Standing in the shadow of taqx – Detroit Taqx City →
In Detroit, I spent a night with Asim, someone Arjun, MC Riz and I met in an elevator two ISNAs ago. Asim, like everyone else I meet, is a soul brother, he plays in Oblisk – a band that…
Knight & Majeed talk Taqwacore →
Mike Knight and Omar Majeed interviewed on QTV
Masjid “Annoying-core” →
I had a little reminder yesterday about just how easily annoyed, sensitive, and downright insecure I am about my “public muslimness”. Let me set the scene.
It’s 40 days after the death…
Yusuf Islam Comes Half Circle →
written by Imran Malik
Photo Credit: Lacey Diane
About 6 years ago, I met Yusuf Islam at a small fundraiser for Bosnia. I didn’t care much for Yusuf at the time, but was kinda…
Rising Generation in Pakistan Sees Social Change as Their Responsibility - NYTimes.com
Source: www.nytimes.com
A group Pakistani friends, tired of hearing their families complain about the government, decided to take matters, specifically picking up garbage, into their own hands.
happy to see this.
Masjid “Annoying-core” →
I had a little reminder yesterday about just how easily annoyed, sensitive, and downright insecure I am about my “public muslimness”. Let me set the scene.
It’s 40 days after the death…
Pakistan Beneath the Surface - Photo Essays - TIME Source: www.time.com The nation of 170 million is torn by many religious outlooks, class divisions and ethnic rivalries. Photographs by Alixandra Fazzina for TIME
King Khan and The Shrines →
KING KHAN AND HIS SENSATIONAL SHRINES
written by Shahjehan Khan
“Why don’t you want any Wasabi?”
Arjun and I were sharing some sushi (which would later prove to be a questionable…
Class Dismissed in Swat Valley - Video Library - The New York Times
Source: video.nytimes.com
A short documentary profiling an 11-year-old Pakistani girl on the last day before the Taliban closed down her school.
The Dandy Warhols Are Sound | The Dandy Warhols... →
So much to look forward to this summer.
CBC Interview with Mike Knight about The... →
This is a radio interview that Michael Muhammad Knight, author of The Taqwacores, gave to the CBC about his book on March 29th, 2009. An in depth discussion about his motivations for writing the…
Getting Lost in Herculean Noise →
written by Imran Malik Mogwai at Congress Theatre, Chicago | May 8th, 2009 | Photo Credit: Imran Malik
There was a moment last night at the Mogwai show when the laser lights were bathing my shut eyelids with greens and purples and the kick drum reverberating in my ribcage, and the lilt of the organ was hovering above a thundering bass, that made me realize that this – this is a vehicle of...
“Kafka would have had a Twitter feed! And so would have Hemingway, and so would...”
– BLDGBLOG: How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter (via langer)
Well said.
Post about last night’s Mogwai show http://taqwacore.wordpress.com/
I. Just. Had. A. Religious. Experience.
“Osama Van Halen”, new book from cult author of “The Taqwacores” is out now!!!! Taqwapunks kidnap Matt Damon!! http://bit.ly/KlIUN
'Invisibility Cloak' Successfully Hides Objects... →
Never mind Harry Potter, researchers have made an invisibility cloak of their own. Scientists have taken a major step towards a true invisibility device with the creation of a carpet cloak from…
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