Back in March I contributed to Center for Amerian Progress’ report on “Sharia Law.” The report can be found here. But by defining Sharia itself as the problem, and then asserting the authenticity of only the most extreme interpretations of Sharia, the authors are effectively arguing that the internecine struggle…
I am very pleased that my Alma Mater invites alumni back every year to march during graduation. I am trying to go as often as I can. Below is a picture from this year’s graduation/flood exercises. Photo: Ethan Rouen ©Columbia College Alumni Affairs and Development
I am pleased to announce I have joined Our Shared Future as a member of the Advisory Board and as part of their Opinion Leaders Network. Our Shared Future aims to improve the public conversation about Muslims and intercultural relations in the US by providing hard facts, evidence-based arguments, and…
Divine dispatches: a religion roundup Over at Religion Dispatches Hussein Rashid writes that mosques should have a discussion about LGBT Muslims in their congregations, saying that the “next great challenge will be how do we deal with Muslims who are out.”
Everyday Art: The Islamic Impact on American Arts Saturday, May 21, 2011 3:00 p.m. Loyola University Museum of Art 820 North Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60611 LUC.edu/luma Flyer – Islamic Impact on American Arts.pdf
My segment begins around 1:16:00. Embed is a WMA, and the link will take you to the MP3. Daugiau laidų galite pažiūrėti lrt.lt archyve
My friend, Rabbi Jason Klein, did a video about our relationship at Columbia for the My Fellow American project.
Hussein Rashid, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, recognizes this sentiment of bin Laden as a larger than life threat among Muslim-American youth — similar to his generation’s experience during the Cold War. “We’re now getting a group of young adults whose first conscious memory was formed by…
LUMA Loyola University Museum of Art. Saturday, May 21 Everyday Art: The Islamic Impact on American Arts 3:00 p.m. Free with museum admission American popular culture reflects the cultural diversity of the American people and helps to shape the way Americans understand themselves. Perhaps the least understood of these influences…