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The Complete Persepolis  - Marjane Satrapi The Complete Persepolis  | Goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Worth Reading Marjane Satrapi's internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips,  Persepolis is a powerful autobiographical story about growing up in Iran during the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and the rise of a strict Islamic government after the Islamic Revolution . The story is told through the eyes of a girl child, which makes complex political events simple, emotional and deeply relatable. Through this young perspective, Satrapi shows how everyday life was shaped by fear, change, and uncertainty. Satrapi’s visual storytelling is deceptively simple, using stark black‑and‑white illustrations and concise narration to mirror the moral clarity and confusion of growing up during Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Satrapi skillfully mixes funny moments with serious ones to show how people survived difficult times under both regimes. This minimalist style allows ordinary moments from ...

Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey  by  V. S. Naipaul Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey | Goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Worth Reading History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious revolutions.    In Bangladesh, a significant number of people have converted to Islam over centuries, particularly during the medieval period when the region was influenced by conquest of Muslim rulers and proselytization by Sufi saints. Today, there has been t he rapid rise of radicalism in Bangladesh with the ouster of ex- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina  in the student protest.  The protest has now been hijacked by Islamic extremists. Over the years, there was  a surge in madrasas, and  this has led to growing religious fanaticism, with zealots aggressively pushing an Islamist agenda.  With Islamist influence in power, Bangladesh is modifying national identity by erasing symbols of its secular past, ...

1- Why Pandits aren't returning to roots ? : The Pandits, though, will tell you another story: of murders and village loudspeakers issuing threats. Jagmohan is rarely the central figure that Kashmiri Muslim makes him out to be. 2- Will Pakistanis put their national interest first? by Harini Calamur :If there is any country in the world that is a poster child for dictatorship, it is Pakistan. Over the last two and half decades at least, Pakistan seems to have been more stable and more prosperous under its military dictators than its “democratically” elected leaders. 3- Islamic Banking System: Threats and Opportunities --- The Islamic banking system is an important component of Islamic finance. Islamic finance has unique features because its foundation is laid on the principles and rules of Islamic law (sharia), which states that everything is owned by Allah and man has only been permitted to use it. 4- The predicament of the Islamic Republic by Hamid Dabashi. Green Movement...