Rosh Hashanah: Jewish New Year
Usually in September, Jewish New Year marks the end of the Jewish calendar year. Its customs include blowing a hollow ram’s horn in the synagogue
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Monday, December 15, 2025
Culture
Melancholy Moods: Rebetika Music
Music as rich in content as the blues and based on real life, rebetika came alive in Greece during the 1920’s. It was after the destruction of the city of Smirna in Asia Minor by the Turks, and the huge influx of refugees into Greece.
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Pagan Faith: Beware the Evil Eye
Culture Facts Where: Pagan roots, believed in by modern Arabs, Jews, and Christians around the world, from India to North
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Shah Faisal: Pakistan’s Largest Mosque
At the foothills of the Margalla Hills in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad, the Shah Faisal Mosque is one of the core places of Muslim worship in Southern Asia. It was erected from foundations to prayer in just 5 years in 1976.
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The Big Smoke: Cuban Cigars
Cuba is one of the world’s last Communist enclaves. The fading glory of a dying era is manifest everywhere in the crumbing buildings and run down towns,
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