by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on MARCH 24, 2013: Last week the results of a major new survey on immigration issues, conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with The Brookings Institution, were released. And while the big headline to come out of the Citizenship, Values, and Cultural Concerns: What Americans Want from Immigration Reform survey [...]
by JOHN ZOGBY for FORBES on JANUARY 27, 2013: (excerpt) The GOP, in short, has a “principles problem”. Can it continue to house economic/fiscal libertarians under the same tent with those who are invasive toward personal freedoms for young (and not so young) women? Can it be “pro-family” and provide a forum for gays who [...]
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on JANUARY 30, 2013: What is citizenship ? How do we define the public sphere ? What do we mean by the terms Islamists, fundamentalists, minorities, and other controversial terms ? In a public talk last week, sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke Middle East Studies Center, Duke [...]
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on DECEMBER 31, 2012: ISLAMiCommentary thanks you for all of your support of this forum. Here are the Top 10 Posts on the site (by page views as of Dec. 21) since we launched in October 2012: Mbaye Lo: Freedom Vs. Justice — The Problem with Islamic Militancy John [...]
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN for ISLAMiCommentary on DECEMBER 5, 2012: “What we had was a huge demographic victory, not quite an ideological victory,” said John Zogby to an Islamic studies and public policy audience at Duke University, a week after the re-election of President Barack Obama. Zogby, Senior Analyst with the polling firm JZ Analytics, had [...]
Top 25 iComment Original Commentaries, plus Top Videos for 2012-2013 Academic Year
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary, on MAY 21, 2013: Thank you for continuing to support our Transcultural Islam Project and ISLAMiCommentary. We launched this website last October, shortly following the beginning of Duke University’s 2012-2013 academic year. You can find all 86 (so far) of this site’s “iComment” original commentaries here, but below are [...]
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