While the notion that Christmas was cancelled in Bethlehem was widely repeated in popular media and struck me as simplistic, the streets today are by contrast very quiet today, and the overwhelming majority of stores in Bethlehem and neighbouring Bayt
Adapted from a lecture delivered at Georgetown University's Symposium on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion on April 24-25, 2023. Introduction The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is one of the oldest antisemitic tropes, dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. It has been studied by several pioneering scholars. First, by the renowned scholar Norman Cohn in his
“Aïcha la bien-aimée du Prophet” by Geneviève Chauvel
Note: This review is very large and I opted to split it into 2 parts. The second part will start when Prophet Muhammad died.
I decided to review “
Aicha, the most beloved wife of the Prophet” for the chronicles of the active life of the Prophet Muhammad, and the specific circumstances that revealed the messages from Archangel Gabriel. Aicha lived to be 67 of age and experienced Islam since she was born, and
she died as Islam was splitting into schisms.
Aicha was born in 616 in Mecca and she was redheaded like her maternal grandmother. Her father Abu Bakr, later the first Caliph,