BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of pilgrims are in the Iraqi city of Karbala for Ashoura, the holy day on which Shiite Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet ...

SCRANTON – In his more than five decades teaching at the University of Scranton, Riaz Hussain set the chalkboard standard. Hussain, Ph.D., began teaching at the university in 1967, and will retire at ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying ...

Twenty-one years ago, Imam Husham Al-Husainy led a group of worshippers from his Dearborn mosque in a procession to a park about two miles away to mark Arbaeen, a holiday that recalls the death of a ...

Presented by Lincoln Center Festival 2002 at Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, NYC, July 17–21. By attending only the last of the three Iranian Ta'ziyehs at the Lincoln Center Festival, I missed the ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying ...