PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- When Alaha Abdul Faruq isn't at the library or at a lecture, she's finding time to help Afghan women and their children adapt to life in Philadelphia. "Women will come over and ...

Leon Faruq, the director of Safe Streets for Living Classrooms who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, died Wednesday at Sinai Hospital, where he was being treated for kidney ...

Alaha Abdul Faruq, a full-time graduate student who's lived in Philadelphia for the past 14 years, is desperate to help her family living under the Taliban in Afghanistan. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) ...

Neel akasher nichey ami rasta cholechhi eka--there would be hardly any movie-goer of the 1960s-'70s who has not heard the song by the late Khondokar Faruq Ahmed. A very popular singer of the time, ...

Those he touched wanted to share in his wake, to talk about the way his music had knocked them down or opened them up or raised their intellects — or touched them spiritually as well as musically. How ...

Writer, Urdu poet, literature teacher, translator. Born Jan. 11, 1939, in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), Pakistan. Died Nov. 10, 2011, in Montreal of pulmonary fibrosis, aged 72. Faruq Hassan was atypical ...

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Detroit saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey's third release with the Northwoods Improvisers, Auzar, may be their best collaboration yet; certainly, it benefits from the addition of fellow Detroiters Mike Carey ...

This Eid-ul-Fitr, Ziaul Faruq Apurba and Naznin Nahar Niha are reuniting as a duo in a new drama titled “Meghbalika”, written and directed by Jakaria Showkhin. Previously, the duo was first seen ...

Faruq Ahmed Choudhury was very close to my heart. Though he was a 'big' man in terms of his stature, he communicated with us like a friend and an elder brother. I admired him, loved him and respected ...