[custom_adv] They may not be able to drive in the Kingdom yet, but Saudi Arabian women sure can fight like a girl. And there is one woman in particular who is leading this movement, 39 year old Halah Al Hamrani who owns a private gym in Jeddah called Flagboxing. She is considered to be the first female kickboxing and boxing …
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Years of modernization in Afghanistan 50s and 60s
[custom_adv] Fractured by internal conflict and foreign intervention for centuries, Afghanistan made several tentative steps toward modernization in the mid-20th century.
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[custom_adv] The Mourning of Muharram is a set of rituals associated with both Shia and Sunni Islam. The commemoration falls in Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. Many of the events associated with the ritual take place in congregation halls known as Hussainia.
Read More »Ta’zieh in nooshabad
[custom_adv] In Persian culture it refers to condolence theater and Naqqali which are traditional Persian theatrical genres in which the drama is conveyed wholly or predominantly through music and singing. It dates from before the Islamic era and the tragedy of Saiawush in Shahnameh is one of the best examples.
Read More »The plane crash of military senior commanders
[custom_adv] The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac, and cargo transport aircraft.
Read More »Melania Trump Presides Over Her First Harvest of White House Garden
[custom_adv] On Friday, the current first lady held her first event in the White House Kitchen Garden, founded by Obama in 2009 as part of her healthy eating initiative.
Read More »photos of 8 years war with Iraq
[custom_adv] The War was an armed conflict between homeland and Iraq lasting from 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded homeland, to August 1988. The war followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq’s Shi’ite majority, as well as Iraq’s desire to replace Iran as the dominant …
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[custom_adv] Repoussé or repoussage is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. It is a form of toreutics.There are few techniques that offer such diversity of expression while still being relatively economical. Chasing is the opposite of repoussé, and the two are …
Read More »The ‘boxing grannies’ of South Africa
[custom_adv] In South Africa, in the township of Cosmo City, the local boxing club has new recruits: women aged 65 to 85 years train there twice a week. An initiative launched by the association A-Team, which offers sporting activities in the city’s recreation center where the boxing grannies and their coach have become local celebrities.
Read More »Ayatullah Khamenei’s speech at the UN
[custom_adv] Even in the case of Iraq’s military aggression against our country, the evidence and documents that have since surfaced show that the United States had extended full support to Iraq and encouraged it to wage its full-scale war on the Islamic Republic.
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