Ayman Soliman, a beloved former children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area, has been jailed by Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement since July 9. Soliman was finally released today, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. Just before 1:15 p.m., Adam Allen — one of the Cincinnati …
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CINCINNATI —In recent years, if you lived in the Queen City metropolitan area and your young child was severely ill, or dying of a terminal condition, chances are good that you encountered Ayman Soliman, who until recently was a Muslim chaplain at the renowned Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Whatever your faith …
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Egyptian artist TUL8TE doesn’t want you to know anything personal about him. He is here to make you listen — not to his story, but to his music. We spoke over a camera-less Zoom call in December, around 4 p.m. Jordan time, while he was mid-tour. Any question that veered …
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The first few seconds of Marwan Moussa’s song “3AMEL EH” open with an interaction between the rapper and a voice that seemingly belongs to his therapist. The therapist can be heard asking the 30-year-old Egyptian artist about his feelings. Moussa responds by asking her to dim the lights so he …
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Faress Arafat, 22, worked as a volunteer nurse in Gaza — first in the emergency department at al-Shifa Hospital and then in displacement camps in Rafah. It has now been one year since Israel’s war on Gaza began. More than 41,000 people have been killed, and 100,000 have been injured. …
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In the blistering heat of June 2013, as Egypt teetered on the brink of monumental change, Cairokee, the country’s trailblazing rock band, took the stage in front of hundreds of thousands gathered at a sit-in outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace. What followed wasn’t just a performance — it was an …
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