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| Middle East peace through yogic flying |
Paul Roochnik
Study Arabic? It first occurred to me in 1979. I was completing my B.A. and also teaching in New Jersey (teaching what? Keep reading!), and my colleague, Dave returned from Egypt, having taught in Cairo ... |
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| Why do Muslims look to religion to address political issues? |
Dalia Mogahed
One of the foremost experts on what he refers to as Islamic democracy, Noah Feldman, explains in his book "After Jihad: America and the struggle for Islamic Democracy" how the Western paradigm has focused on two diametrically opposed models of government, each tracing its ... |
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| A dream across a chair |
Khalid Ajlouny
The Stage
Being an undersized creature, among all those complete men, the barber had to lay a plank across the armrests, to gain proper access to my head. Waiting my turn, I wondered when I will become man enough to ... |
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| Immigration across the Atlantic Ocean |
Maroof Ahmed
Across the Atlantic Ocean in the Kingdom of Morocco, a crisis of emigration is taking place. The idea of immigration to Europe is engrained deeply into the culture of Moroccan society. The country’s ... |
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| Kidnapping "Fatah" and "Islam" |
Hazem Saghieh
Many have noticed that Fatah al-Islam kidnaps "Fatah" Movement and, therefore, the Palestinian cause and its heritage, and, at the same time, kidnaps Islam. However, as long as language has a meaning, it is not ... |
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| “Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol”
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Hussein Al-alak
Whilst Christians, Sunni and Shi'ite in Iraq face the persecution of British foreign policy and Palestinians look back over the past forty years as refugees, the UK Department for Education has now declared ... |
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| Promoting peace one T-shirt at a time |
Kristin Erekson
Two Buckingham Browne & Nichols students – one Jewish and one Muslim – have joined forces to promote a cause that they hope will help bridge the divide between Israelis and Palestinians.
Cambridge resident ... |
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| Should North Africa brace for more terror attacks? |
Arezki Daoud
From the Salafist Group of Preaching and Combat in Algeria, the Salafiya Jihadia in Morocco, the Islamic Combatant Group in Libya, to the Islamic Jihadist Group in Tunisia, one can see the beginning of the formation ... |
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| Peace is my tune |
Abir Zaki
sitting in darkness in my little corner of the world
watching the pale night sky
sliced by massive silvery blazing burning stars
making sense of the violence that's going on
refusing to be nursed by its ... |
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