Archive for the ‘San Francisco’ Category

Welcome to Bay Area: New York Times and Wall Street Journal

Thursday, November 12, 2009 0:10 1 Comment

As newspapers are shutting down left and right, the popular east coast newspapers are looking to either expand or merge with local newspapers. Both Wall Street Journal and New York Times have decided that it’s high time they look west and acquire new territory.
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In the last month, the New York Times and the Wall [...]

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Professor Brent Walters on Gene Burns Radio Show

Friday, December 12, 2008 20:45 6 Comments

Day before yesterday while driving back from work, I heard KGO’s talk show host Gene Burns mention he will have San Jose State University Professor of Comparative Religion on his show on Thursday, 11th December. The reason he was inviting Brent Walters was because during one of Gene’s radio show few weeks back his [...]

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Ramadan Fast-a-Thon at SFSU

Thursday, September 11, 2008 20:58 1 Comment

Like every year, SFSU MSA is organizing its Ramadan Fast-a-Thon next week. The whole concept behind Fast-a-Thon is to get non-Muslims to fast one day and then have them break their fast with Muslims and other non-Muslims.
Fast-a-Thon helps create awareness about the issue of hunger, and also about the Islamic way of life [...]

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Golden Gate Bridge – A Different View from North Vista Point

Thursday, July 31, 2008 19:33 5 Comments

Living in San Francisco Bay Area, you do get to see the Golden Gate Bridge once in a while. I have been to GGB few times but every time I went there, I was told that the best view of the bridge is when you take the detour on north side of the bridge [...]

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Videos from “An Afternoon Dedicated to Urdu” Show at UC Berkeley

Sunday, May 11, 2008 21:36 1 Comment

I reviewed this show last week and now I have couple of videos to share with you. I mentioned in my review that all the acts like the song/ghazal performances, Qawwali, and Khabarnama were very nicely done. Well… here I have two videos; one is of the Qawwali and the other is of a funny [...]

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