Waiting for a miracle in Iraq
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Only two days after an extremist attack that saw 14 missiles rain down on Erbil, and in the midst of a new coronavirus surge and lockdown, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Najeeb Michaeel, was optimistic about the upcoming visit of Pope Francis.
“Everyone is very happy about this historic event,” he said of Iraq’s inaugural papal visit, from his home in Ankawa, Erbil’s Christian enclave, which has given refuge to thousands of those displaced by ISIS. A previously planned visit in 2000 by Pope John Paul II to Ur, birthplace of the Prophet Abraham, the Judeo-Christian-Islamic patriarch who has become a symbol of inter-faith harmony, was foiled by protracted negotiations with the government of Saddam Hussein. In 2020, Pope Francis had to cancel a trip due to security and pandemic concerns.
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‘The Mappila Verses’: Where do we go if our names are not in the list?
‘Where do coconut trees go when their roots are declared illegal?’ Anonymous 16th-century Portuguese illustration from Códice Casanatense, depicting Kerala Muslims | Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome / Wikimedia Commons
Following the Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish’s
Write me down, I am an Arab, Ajmal Khan wrote “Write me down, I am an Indian” in the wake of the CAA-NRC protests. It was translated into Hindi by lyricist Varun Grover, and into many other regional languages.
The Mappila Verses is Khan’s new collection of poems.
Portrait of a Bastard
Kochi sits on the Arabian Sea. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA)
A sign denotes Kochi s Jew street, as it is known locally, which once was a hub of Indian Jewish life. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA)
A look inside the 452-year-old Paradesi Synagogue in Kochi. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA)
KOCHI, India (JTA) Take a walk down this coastal city’s “Jew street” today and you’ll find bustling Kasmiri storefronts selling Persian antiques, pashmina shawls and traditional Islamic handicrafts a stark contrast to the neighborhood’s heyday when every household was Jewish.
“There are only two people left in Jew Town. One very old, who spends most of her time in Los Angeles, and one other,” said Shalva Weil, a senior researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a leading figure on the Jewish communities of India.
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