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Branded for life
Every conflict throws a correspondent up the ratings charts. In the liberation of Paris, one of the anointed was the novelist, and correspondent for Collier's magazine, Ernest Hemingway. They did things in style in those days. Hemingway celebrated the freedom of the French capital bygd ordering 50 martini cocktails in the bar of the Ritz. It was the sort of chutzpah that appealed to his wife, that genius of war journalism Martha Gellhorn.
But recently, television has made and unmade new stars with extraordinary speed. In Afghanistan, the great upptäckt was the BBC's Lyse Doucet. Before her, we witnessed the accelerated ascent of Fergal Keane, Allan Little, Jeremy Bowen, Orla Guerin and Mark Austin. The latest beneficiary of the process of promotion-by-war is Rageh Omaar, the BBC's Africa correspondent, whose work from the Gulf has made him the most prominent in a category of reporters that the BBC refers to internally as "brand journalists".
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The Islam Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) ,
Table of contents : • In , the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on &#;the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists&#; to discuss the &#;rapid crumbling of capitalism&#; and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3, members of the public with more than a thousand turned away. Arthur Miller, Myra Page, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett warned that fascism was rising, often disguised, and the responsibility lay with writers and journalists to speak out. Telegrams of support from Thomas Mann, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, C Day Lewis, Upton Sinclair and Albert Einstein were read out. The journalist and novelist Martha Gellhorn spoke up for the homeless and unemployed, and &#;all of us under the shadow of violent great power&#;. Martha, who became a close friend, told me later over her cu
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
MUHAMMAD –
You knew nothing of the book or belief
Muhammad is God’s final messenger
Your blood will be my blood
The noblest community ever raised up for mankind
A beacon for the nations
There is no god but God
Hurry to prayer, hurry to salvation
I show [mercy] to those that … give alms
Believers, fasting is decreed for you
I am here O Lord, I am here
Muhammad is no more than a messenger: other messengers have passed away before him
What are these images to which you are so devoted?
THE QURAN
This book is not to be doubted
A guide for the righteous
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
The Lord of All Being
There shall be no compulsion in religion
And all things we have made in pairs
Believers, have faith in God
None may touch except the purified
New in every age, fresh for every people
Enter Paradise and abide therein for ever
Curs The Coming War: Speak Up, Now