They kiss. A spaghetti strap slips off her naked shoulder. Usual stuff to American aficionados of the genre. But Turkish television has given the soap a fresh twist by making the connivers, kidnappers and canoodlers Muslims. And it is Arab audiences, even more than Turks, who have been swept off their feet. Through the small screen, Turkey has begun to exercise a big influence at Arab dinner tables, in boardrooms and bedrooms from Morocco to Iraq of a sort that the United States can only dream about.

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Decades ago the French Socialist government faced an unprecedented case in the French secularist education system. The debate was about legislating to ban any ostensible religious signs within the public school. According to French media reports, there are about 2, fully-covered veiled women in France, and many of them are Caucasians, French natives converted to Islam. The bill passed in the French Parliament and became law, but how would the law be enforced? This is pre-Paris attacks mode. Today, Security, Security and Security. Hence his statement has sparked controversy in the Muslim community milieu by suggesting the Muslim headscarf should be banned in universities, since a majority of French people think Islam is incompatible with the values of the Republic.
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This is a book of pictures and stories for big children and small grown-up folks; for all who love Sinbad the sailor and his strange country. It is a topsy-turvy book; there is no order about the chapters; and you can begin to read it anywhere. It is intended to give a bird's-eye view to those who cannot take birds' wings.
The trade was conducted through slave markets in these areas, with the slaves captured mostly from Africa's interior, [3] Southern and Eastern Europe, [4] [5] [6] the Caucasus , and Central Asia. Walter Rodney argues that the term Arab Slave Trade is a historical misnomer since bilateral trade agreements between myriad ethnic groups across the proposed ' Zanj trade network' characterized much of the acquisition process of chattel , and more often than not indentured servants. Others have also proposed the Trans-Saharan slave trade. The East African slave trade network was later dominated by European colonial traders by the 18th and 19th centuries, when the destinations of most East African slaves were plantation colonies owned by Europeans. The Arab slave trade, across the Sahara desert and across the Indian Ocean , began after Muslim Arab and Swahili traders won control of the Swahili Coast and sea routes during the 9th century see Sultanate of Zanzibar. These traders captured Bantu peoples Zanj from the interior in present-day Kenya , Mozambique and Tanzania and brought them to the coast. Author N'Diaye estimates that as many as 17 million people were sold into slavery on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa, and approximately 5 million African slaves were transported by Muslim slave traders via Red Sea , Indian Ocean, and Sahara desert to other parts of the world between and How is that possible if the total population of Africa at that time might not even have been 40 million?