Emad Al-kasid, right, meets talks with Sheik Mortada Maash, left, chief editor of Annabaa Magazine, after touring the office of Annabaa Magazine, www.annabaa.org and www.iraqtoday.net at the Howza of Ayotollah Shirazi the Iraqi area of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, July 16, 2003. Al-kasid has been meeting with businessmen and media people to learn about their ways as he plans to publish a magazine...Maash said that their publications are banned in Saudi Arabia and most arabic countries. "They talk about peace," Maash says, "The Shiite way, not the Wahabi way.'If you write anything about us, we believe in non-violence; this is what our magazines are about.".."You have to write these things and tell Amercia and Europe. America must stay with the Iraqi people. They must help us and fulfill their promises of bringing democracy and freedom to our future for America's future depends on these too."..His wife Zainab Sahb is the chief editor of Bushra Magazine for women...A Howza is like a seminary where men come to study. In this Shiite Howza, the philosophy of Ayotollah Shirazi is taught. As with all Shiite, advocacy of non-violence is the pre-eminent rule. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiite settled in Syria after the Gulf War and their uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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