Sentences with phrase «islamic cultural center»

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?

The Village Independent Democrats join the hundred or more organizations (including the Downtown Independent Democrats, the Lower Manhattan Democrats, and the New York Neighbors for American Values) in supporting the construction of an Islamic Cultural Center at 51 Park Place in downtown Manhattan.

The proposed site of Park51, an Islamic cultural center that will include a mosque, is especially contentious because it goes to the heart of who is to blame for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Two co-founders of the controversial plan to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero are mulling a new, rival...

Mr. Bloomberg, speaking at an annual Iftar dinner, said he understood the impulse to find an alternative location for the proposed mosque and Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero.

Would you attend the groundbreaking for the Islamic cultural center and mosque near the WTC site?

His defense of the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque near Ground Zero shows that he's more passionate defending freedom of religion, than he has been in displaying his religiosity.

Betty Shabazz's funeral service was held at the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City.

Last week Carol Mann, an LPGA star in the»60s and»70s and winner of 38 tournaments worldwide, let loose a rant on her Facebook page, criticizing the proposed construction of an Islamic cultural center near where the World Trade Center towers were located before the 9/11 attacks.

Two suspects have been detained in an attack on the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center, a mosque in the middle of the city, around 7:55 p.m. where two gunmen in...

Its welcoming calm and nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 people.

Had the «Islamic Cultural Center» been planned and built four years ago, nobody would have known.

Two days after President Obama came out in support of a plan to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero, the controversial project has received yet another high - profile endorsement — this one from the chief of the terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The group behind the proposed Islamic cultural center near New York's ground zero has released what it is calling the first official images of the center.

Not exact matches

During this time Egypt continued to be a center for continuing cultural and commercial emigrations from neighboring Arab countries as well as a crossroads for the infiltration of Western culture — an infiltration which remained within the bounds imposed by the desire to maintain the Arabic and Islamic character of the culture of Egypt.

«I don't care who or what these criminals claim to be, but I can never recognize these criminals as part of my city or my faith community,» said Yusufi Vali, executive director for the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the largest mosque in the Boston area.

A plan by Islamic leaders to build a mosque and cultural center on private land two blocks from where the World Trade Center twin towers were attacked September 11, 2001 has been strongly opposed by those who say it would be an affront to the memories of those who died at ground zero thacenter on private land two blocks from where the World Trade Center twin towers were attacked September 11, 2001 has been strongly opposed by those who say it would be an affront to the memories of those who died at ground zero thaCenter twin towers were attacked September 11, 2001 has been strongly opposed by those who say it would be an affront to the memories of those who died at ground zero that day.

Option 2 - Private guided tour of Katara Cultural Village that includes art galleries, Katara Art Center and QM Gallery Katara, plus the chance to experience a live art auction of islamic and oriental paintings at AlBahie Auction House.

The move comes two months after Islamic extremist group ISIS sacked the monumental ruins of Palmyra, once one of the most important cultural centers in the Middle East and a UNESCO world heritage site.

We successfully represented a Boston area Islamic group post-9 / 11 to combat highly organized, well - financed discrimination aimed at preventing area Muslims from building a mosque and cultural center in Roxbury.