Author: Ebrahim

When many Westerners hear the word “Iraq” today, they may think that it has always been a predominantly Muslim country. Yet the Middle East region, including modern-day Iraq, has a pre-Islamic history spanning more than millennia. This region is also the ancient land of the indigenous Assyrian people and an extremely important place for Christianity. In fact, the land today known as Iraq is often mentioned as the cradle of the Bible. This land – also called the “cradle of civilization” – is where Christianity was discovered in the first century. This was thanks to the work of the Apostle…

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Old Bridge, NJ – The Hermes Expo, a premier networking event for Greek-American and Philhellenic professionals, is proud to announce its honorees for the 32nd Annual Hermes Expo Awards Dinner and Entertainment. The event, taking place June 14 at the Grand Marquis in Old Bridge, New Jersey, will celebrate the outstanding contributions and achievements of prominent leaders in the Greek-American and Philhellenic communities. This year’s winners include: Ernie Anastos, Emmy TV News Anchor, WABC – Emmy Award-winning journalist and news anchor with a career spanning more than four decades. Steve and Nancy Kontos, Owners, Kontos Foods – Entrepreneurs who revolutionized…

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If you want to immerse yourself in the arts in Evanston and beyond, you’re in luck. The area is full of places to go for all things arts, from shows to museums. Don’t be afraid to venture off campus and participate in the Evanston and Chicago art scene. Music SPACE Evanston is a live music venue, with concerts available almost every day. Ticket prices vary. Another performance venue, Studio5, was opened by Northwestern alumni Béa (Communication ’78) and Steve Rashid (Bienen MM ’83). Studio5 offers music, dance and theater performances. The city of Evanston also hosts the Starlight Concert and…

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BELLINGHAM, Washington, September 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — eXp Real Estate®, “the most agent-centric real estate brokerage on the planet™” and the primary subsidiary of eXp World Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPI), today welcomed Bean Group Brokered by eXp Realty as as the first brokerage company to join via Booster – The new eXp brokerage incentive program. Bean Group was founded in 2003 with a focus on exemplary customer service, online marketing and state-of-the-art lead generation. The company quickly grew to become one of the premier brokerages in northern New England. Today, their annual sales volume exceeds $1.5 billion and they…

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Citizen Science by Jamie Zvirzdin Science is a game of words A very generous friend in Maryland gave me his entire collection of Isaac Asimov books, and I was shocked to discover how many nonfiction books Asimov wrote beyond his science fiction. My favorite so far is “Words of Science and the History Behind Them”, published in 1959. What Asimov writes at the beginning of “Words of Science” is right: “Entering the world of mathematics and science turns into an encounter with a whole kingdom of new words: words that seem strange; words that are long and difficult to pronounce;…

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Receive free updates on US-China relationsWe will send you a myFT daily summary email summarizing the latest US-China relations news every morning. The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Chinese citizen with stealing trade secrets from Apple, including information about driverless car technology, in one of five cases brought by a new protection-focused task force. critical technologies against foreign governments. A federal court unsealed an indictment Tuesday accusing Weibao Wang, a former software engineer at Apple, of confiscating thousands of documents, including on the research and development of technologies for autonomous systems used in self-driving cars.THE DoJ alleged that while…

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Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KARL SEBASTIAN GREENWOOD, co-founder of OneCoin with RUJA IGNATOVA, aka “the Cryptoqueen,” was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his orchestration of the fraud scheme massive OneCoin. OneCoin, which began operations in 2014 and was based in Sofia, Bulgaria, marketed and sold a fraudulent cryptocurrency of the same name through a global multi-level marketing (“MLM”) network. As a result of false claims made by GREENWOOD, IGNATOVA and others about OneCoin, millions of victims have invested more than $4 billion globally in the fraudulent cryptocurrency.…

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