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Iraq Goes Dry Despite Opposition
Iraq’s alcohol ban is out of step with the direction the Middle East is taking and also runs against the growing secularization of Iraqi society, particularly among its very large youth population.
The Muezzin and the Meowzin
As the proud owner of a 12-year-old white Havanese, Malik, I have experienced these conflicting views about dogs in the Middle East. I wondered, as the author of several books on contemporary Islam, what these views say about the religion today and Islam as a lived tradition.