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  Sarai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sarai, the capital city of the Golden Horde.
The town of Sarai Alamgir in northern Pakistan.
Sarai is a new media initiative of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies(CSDS).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarai   (155 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Sarai
The Sarai Initiative interprets this sense of the word "sarai" to mean a very public space, where different intellectual, creative and activist energies can intersect in an open and dynamic manner so as to give rise to an imaginative reconstitution of urban public culture, new/old media practice, research and critical cultural intervention.
Sarai is becoming recognised as an important alternative venue in Delhi for discussions, workshops on the politics of media culture and urban space, screenings and as a convivial space where many young people can feel comfortable in an increasingly constricted cultural milieu.
She and Abraham are said to be lunar deities, or adaptations of the Babylonian Adonis-Tammuz (Abraham) and Ishtar (Sarai) myths (the descent of Ishtar).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sarai   (622 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Sarai (city)
Sarai Batu (Old Sarai, Sarai-al-Maqrus) was a capital city of the Golden Horde.
Sarai, which means an enclosed space, tavern or public house in a city, or, beside a highway, where travelers and caravans can find shelter in various South-Asian and Middle Eastern languages, is located in the basement of a newly erected building in Delhi (India).
Sarai is in the first place a research facility, but the pressure will be strong, from both in and outside, to show concrete results in terms of interfaces, software and new media titles.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sarai-(city)   (502 words)

  
 Sarah, Sarai - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
It is immediately added that "Sarai was barren; she had no child." By this simple remark in the overture of his narrative, the writer sounds the motif that is to be developed in all the sequel.
Sarai's career as described in Genesis 11 was not dependent on her being the daughter of Terah.
Sarai, though above 60 years of age according to the chronology of the sacred historian, made the impression on the Egyptians by her beauty that Abraham had anticipated, and the result was her transfer to the royal palace.
www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T7644   (1509 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - SARAH (SARAI).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sarai being still childless, she induced her husband to take her Egyptian handmaid Hagar for a concubine, that through her she might be "built up," Hagar, feeling herself quick with child, despised her mistress, whereupon Sarai bitterly upbraided her husband.
When her youth had been restored and she had given birth to Isaac, the people would not believe in the miracle, saying that the patriarch and his wife had adopted a foundling and pretended that it was their own son.
The two forms of the name, "Sarah" and "Sarai," are identical in meaning; it is difficult to understand the reason for the change.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=245&letter=S   (2970 words)

  
 Sarai, New Media Initiative
Sarai: the New Media Initiative, a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies is a part of this process of looking for ways to communicate and reflect the contemporary urban condition in our part of the world.
Sarai tries to address some of the questions of communication and reflection that are vital to our everyday lives in Delhi.
Sarai has a core team of eighteen people from different backgrounds and disciplines (filmmakers, academics, software programmers, lawyers, social workers, activists, designers, writers, researchers and media producers) who work on a regular basis on different collaborative and individual projects.
subsol.c3.hu /subsol_2/contributors0/saraitext.html   (1269 words)

  
 Genesis 16:3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian
Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
bible.cc /genesis/16-3.htm   (288 words)

  
 Genesis 16:5 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault.
And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
And Sarai said to Abram, my wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
bible.cc /genesis/16-5.htm   (333 words)

  
 Info and facts on 'Sarai (city)'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sarai Batu (Old Sarai, Sarai-al-Maqrus) was a capital city of the Golden Horde (A Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century).
The existence of Sarai Berke (New Sarai, Sarai-al-Jadid) is disputed.
If it existed, the most likely location was Tsarev archeological site also on the Akhtuba channel 55 km south of Volgograd (A city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sarai_(city).htm   (294 words)

  
 fAf :: Ezine - Reviews
The impression one gets of Sarai is that of a dynamic cultural centre where new media are centre stage but not the sole denominator.
When I leave Sarai, the staff is examining 120 applications that have arrived for the second round of the seed grants program for students and young researchers.
Sarai is committed to generating public knowledge and creativity through research.
www.msstate.edu /Fineart_Online/Backissues/Vol_16/faf_v16_n12/reviews/lovink.html   (4398 words)

  
 SARAI
Sarai's new media initiative, true to its name, is focused on a public domain for media research and practice.
Each and every member of Sarai merits a comprehensive introduction, alas this initiation as well as a detailed description of the important collaborations with international activists and media practitioners is beyond the scope of this short report.
Most Sarai projects are deeply rooted in local culture and include: Ethnographies of the New Media; Mapping the City, Film and Consciousness; Language and the New Media: The Hindi Language Project and Social Justice and the City.
www.year01.com /issue8/sarai.html   (1152 words)

  
 Sarai Reader 02: excerpt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A strong motif of Sarai's media neighbourhood project, or Cybermohalla, has been one of attending to the specific qualities of technologies of sound and image.
This dimension of the politics of surveillance and identification, which received a fillip after 9/11, has clear implications for the structures of urban governance and policing, especially in a context in which urban planning gives priority to the logistics of health and environment over the populations which compose the city.
They reaffirm Sarai's commitment to a notion of the public domain, of open access against the aggressive drives to carve up the world, its myriad resources and creative practices into a burgeoning proprietary imperium.
www.autonomedia.org /saraireadertwo/excerpt.html   (2032 words)

  
 Sarai on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Un-`Original': Sarai merely copies other cliched rap anthems.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Un-`Original': Sarai merely copies other cliched rap anthems.
Sarai Waits for the Birth of Hagar's Son.(Poem)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sarai.asp   (297 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Original - Sarai (Rap) at Epinions.com
In the lyrics, Sarai raps about wanting to be left alone and about the press and fans watching her every move.
Sarai delivers the verses rather convincingly and doesn't come off as sounding too preachy, while Black Coffey backs her up on the hook.
What Sarai lacks in the lyrical department is more than made up for by the slick, well-rounded production, but that can sometimes hurt her.
www.epinions.com /content_108411653764   (1436 words)

  
 :: sarai waag exchange ::
Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam) together with Waag Society (Amsterdam) and the New Media Centre Sarai (Delhi), with support from HIVOS, IICD, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The book is a collection of articles, photo-essays, and image collages that take a critical and reflexive look at the law, and practices, codes, norms and customs within which the bare act of the law is located.
The Sarai brings together several distinguished critical voices, as well as new, emerging writers from all over the world (and especially from South Asia) to attend to ideas, situations, contexts and dillemmas related to crises and the media.
waag.sarai.net   (845 words)

  
 Sarai - Bible Wiki
Sarai and Abram have the same father, but a different mother.
Because Sarai was barren, she gave her maidservant Hagai as a wife to Abram.
But when Abram was 99 years old (and Sarai about 90 years old, see Genesis 17:17), God promised him that Sarai was to have a son, called Isaac.
biblewiki.net /Sarai   (277 words)

  
 The Bible Unmasked
Sarai's desires and rights in the matter were of no concern, as long as Abram was sure of protection and free of molestation.
There is no doubt that Sarai performed her part of the bargain with full value, as Pharaoh "entreated Abram well for her sake." It seems in this pretty piece of business sagacity that our sympathies should be with Pharaoh, and our condemnation and contempt for Abram, the Lord notwithstanding to the contrary.
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.
www.positiveatheism.org /hist/lewis/lewun01.htm   (7829 words)

  
 SaraiInfo < Sysadmin < Indymedia Documentation Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sarai is the main IMC mail server, lists.indymedia.org, and has been online since Dec 2004.
Sarai is named after a group in India which does fantastic media work, http://www.sarai.net/.
Sarai is maintained by both the listwork (listwork@lists.indymediaSTOPSPAM.org) working group and imc-sysadmin (imc-sysadmin@lists.indymediaSTOPSPAM.org) which turns out to be largely the same people.
docs.indymedia.org /view/Sysadmin/SaraiInfo   (1144 words)

  
 SARAI Reader 01 - The Public Domain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Sarai is an enclosed space in a city, or, beside a highway, where travellers and caravans can find shelter, sustenance and companionship; a tavern, a public house, a meeting place; a destination and a point of departure; a place to rest in the middle of a journey.
The Sarai Reader (which is the first of what we hope will be more such collections) can be seen both as a navigation log of actual voyages and a map for possible journeys into a real and imagined territory that we have provisionally called the "Public Domain".
Sarai is only the meeting place where some of this is beginning to happen.
www.sarai.net /journal/reader1.html   (1686 words)

  
 fAf :: Ezine - opps
Sarai is an interdisciplinary research and practice program about the city and the media at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.
Sarai is "interested in recognizing the fact that media today are located precisely along the intersections and fault lines that connect and divide representations (media events and processes) and structural problems.
Sarai is looking for incisive analysis, as well as passionate writing, for scholarly and theoretical rigour as well as for critical and imaginative depth.
www.msstate.edu /fineart_online/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n09/opps.html   (5598 words)

  
 Sarai State of Affairs: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
U.S. and Iraqi forces stormed into the Sarai neighborhood of Tall Afar this weekend, a northern Iraqi city believed to be a logistics center for insurgents in northern Iraq, only to find a ghost town.
Instead of being destroyed, as Col. McMaster claimed, the insurgents apparently withdrew to other towns during the predictable U.S. warnings for civilians to evacuate Sarai and the aerial onslaught before the ground assault began.
A second goal of the guerrillas is merely to keep an army in the field and launch hit-and-run tactics to convince the invading country’s populace back home that its government is incurring unacceptable casualties and doing poorly in a faraway war.
www.independent.org /newsroom/article.asp?id=1567   (742 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Original - Sarai (Rap) at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This particular scenario is not one that Sarai went through herself, but she is convincing nonetheless.
The slow, haunting beat is reflective of the storyline and emotions that Sarai delivers through her lyrics and rhymes.
The album finishes with another song dealing with the fact that Sarai must overcome the adversity of being a white female working hard to breakthrough the barriers of hip hop.
www.epinions.com /content_109889621636   (1152 words)

  
 Children's Bible Stories ~ Abram and Sarai
Abram and Sarai along with Lot and the large number of animals they owned, traveled to Egypt where the Nile river supplied water for the surrounding countryside.
When Pharaoh saw how beautiful Sarai was he decided to add her to his list of wives.
When Abram allowed Pharaoh to take Sarai with the intentions of making her one of his wives, one of God's laws had been broken.
www.antelope-ebooks.com /RELIGIOUS/Gen07.html   (901 words)

  
 Online Sarai Booking Amritsar, Lodging Sarai Bookings, Online Bookings for Lodging, Online Sarai Bookings, Online Sarai ...
Also called Sri Guru Ram Das Sarai, was built in 1931.
This project was initiated by the Local Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee Amritsar and its foundation stone was laid by Sant Sadhu Singh ji of Patiala on 17th January 1931.
This building is situated at the entrance point to the main sarai area.
www.sgpc.net /sarai-booking/index.asp   (243 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - LSG returns; Sarai raps up her debut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This team-up doesn't seem quite as momentous as it did the first time around, but if you're a fan, they aim to please.
Sarai, The Original (**½) This native of Upstate New York has been dubbed Feminem by some, but about the only things she has in common with Shady are that she raps and she's white.
Hear a clip of Ladies, from The Original) Her first two singles — the horn-kissed Ladies and the edgy Pack Your Bags— are the kind of bouncy dance grooves you'd never find on anything he did.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/reviews/2003-07-28-listen-up_x.htm   (751 words)

  
 The Hindu : New Delhi News : Garbage piles up at Ber Sarai `dhalao'
ALL FILTH: Heap of garbage which is seldom cleared by the MCD at Ber Sarai
Raising the issue, a resident, Suresh Panje, has alleged that while as per records a truck visits the colony every day, in reality garbage has been piling up at an open dhalao (garbage dump) for a long time and very often the MCD truck does not visit the place for weeks on end.
Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu
www.hindu.com /2005/07/25/stories/2005072512210400.htm   (216 words)

  
 Beautiful Sarai Howard Pics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I don't give a fig for her music (forgettable) but she is beautiful, and so I have created this shrine for her.
These are publicity shots from Sarai's website, which apparently date to mid-July, 2003.
Sarai - Strawberry Blond - Kewl looking site that did bad things to my browser.
hypatia.slashcity.org /scholarly/sarai.html   (232 words)

  
 To reinvent Yusuf Sarai, DDA takes inspiration from Shanghai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Plans have been drawn to decongest this road which runs in front of the busy Yusuf Sarai market.
The wait is now for the DDA’s Planning department to give approval and the Engineering department to implement it.
The stretch from AIIMS to Yusuf Sarai needs functional subways, more bus stops and safety regulations for patients.
cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=78325   (492 words)

  
 Latest News: Sarai
The 3,000 square yard-mill—in Sarai Peepal Thala, a kilometre from the two-time Congress MLA’s home in his constituency, Adarsh Nagar—also flouts Delhi...
In some Tal Afar neighbourhoods, such as Sarai, the entire infrastructure was in the grip of insurgents and jihadists, who ran everything from water and...
Police constable in Sarai Rohilla in north Delhi on December 21.
www.headlinescenter.com /latestnews/Sarai   (353 words)

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