Karbala is an event that carries no parallels and transcends beyond time and space. There have been several incidents where people have lost lives and families have been destroyed. However, Karbala is ...

More than a thousand years ago, a small group, including women and children, fearing bloodshed in the sanctified city of Makkah, began an arduous journey to Kufa – more a city of deception than a ...

Ismat Chughtai’s last novel, a retelling of the legendary Battle of Karbala, fought in 680 AD, can also be read as a political allegory about the suppression of dissent Ek Qatra-e-Khoon (One Drop of ...

The book "Qesse-ye Karbala" (Story of Karbala), published by Shahid Kazemi Publications, is a biography of Imam Hussein (AS). Written by Mehdi Ghazali, it covers the life of Imam Hussein from his ...

The event of Karbala has so captured the imagination of Muslims as well as all others interested in the history of Islam that numerous tomes have been written on the topic, approaching it from various ...

Reporting from Karbala, Iraq — When millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims descended last month on the shrine with twin gold domes in this holy city, many Iraqis expected sectarian fighting to erupt.