Tag: Duke University

‘No to Dictatorship’: Duke Students Cover Sudanese Rap Song

[ 0 ] May 7, 2013 | islamicommentary

by LAWRENCE NEMEH for ISLAMiCommentary on MAY 7, 2013: At Arabic Night this past April, Duke students and faculty came together to celebrate Arab culture through music, food and poetry. Four students in the AMES department – Mayyadda Major, Ryan Gaylord, Desmond Lee and I – debuted our interpretation of the Arabic rap song “La Lildictatoria” or “No [...]

Banu Gökarıksel on ReOrienting the Veil

[ 0 ] May 6, 2013 | islamicommentary

by BANU GÖKARIKSEL for ISLAMiCommentary on May 6, 2013: The veil is a piece of fabric that is politicized like no other. It is the persistent topic of fiery political debates and possibly the most stigmatized, praised, banned, and enforced article of clothing. And it continues to be one of the most misunderstood, stereotyped, and contested [...]

Rev. David Marshall: Building Bridges — Developing Better Christian-Muslim Relations

[ 0 ] April 30, 2013 | islamicommentary

by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary, on APRIL 30, 2013: For more than 10 years the annual Building Bridges Seminar has brought together a range of internationally recognized Christian and Muslim scholars for intensive study. Texts from the Christian and Islamic traditions are used as the basis for discussion in an annual program that includes public [...]

LISTEN: Omid Safi, Jules Odendahl-James, Mark Binker — Exploring Media’s Impact in a Time of Crisis

[ 0 ] April 26, 2013 | islamicommentary

by NICOLE CAMPBELL AND FRANK STASIO for WUNC “THE STATE OF THINGS” on APRIL 26, 2013: As the media covered the tragic Boston Marathon bombing, they also made mistakes. News outlets, with reputations built on truth and accuracy, spent air-time speculating rather than reporting. Some of the early, incorrect reports posed threats to innocent people who were wrongly-implicated [...]

Faisal Kutty: Muslims Hold Key to Fighting Terror

[ 0 ] April 25, 2013 | islamicommentary

by FAISAL KUTTY for THE TORONTO STAR on APRIL 25, 2013: A tipoff from a prominent Toronto imam through our law office (Kutty, Syed and Mohamed)(Kutty, Syed and Mohamed) more than a year ago appears to be at the heart of the arrests this week in the alleged VIA Rail terror plot. In fact, counterterrorism [...]

Orin Starn: The Media’s Inexcusable Frenzy

[ 0 ] April 25, 2013 | islamicommentary

by ORIN STARN for THE HUFFINGTON POST on APRIL 24, 2013: (Excerpt) We’re outraged when we’re attacked. But the moral indignation, not to mention the media coverage, has always been scarce when we’re inflicting suffering on others. That history, of course, stretches from slavery to dropping nuclear bombs on Japanese cities and now drone attacks that [...]