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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Review: Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying - The Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWs by Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer

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Sönke Neitzel & Harald Welzer. Jefferson Chase, translator. Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying - The Secret WWII Transcripts o...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Review: "Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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I first heard about Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 's book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment on either Black Agenda...
Monday, July 01, 2019

Review: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

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In Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America , Ari Berman describes the events which led to the passage of the...
Friday, June 21, 2019

"Even with good intentions, Hollywood still struggles to portray Muslims accurately or fairly, much less positively"

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Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Georgia , describes his involvement in the production of the ...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Law & Order: SVU S20E23 "Assumptions" Was Thoroughly Anti-Muslim

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NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 20, Episode 23 "Assumptions" poorly handled recent controversies and promot...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Short Film: "Refuge" by Mohammad Gorjestani and starring Nikohl Boosheri

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“A brewing war with Iran, xenophobic sentiments towards immigrants, an exploitative tech industry—these things seemed farfetched in 2014, ...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Favorite Quotes: Günter Grass, "The Tin Drum"

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Günter Grass received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999 , and his most famous book is Die Blechtrommel , translated into English as T...
Sunday, March 31, 2019

Favorite Quotes: Dorothy Day, "The Long Loneliness: An Autobiography"

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The best source for information on Dorothy Day is the Catholic Worker website . These quotes are from the 1981 HarperCollins paperback...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Documentary: "The War to Be Her" by Erin Heidenreich

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  Description on PBS.org site : "In the Taliban-controlled area of Waziristan in northwestern Pakistan, where sports for women are dec...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Review: American Hate: Survivors Speak Out by Arjun Singh Sethi (ed.)

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Arjun Singh Sethi 's volume consists of his introduction and conclusion and thirteen accounts by victims of hate crimes and/or their s...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Documentary on Ongoing Human Rights Violations in Yemen - "In Darkness" by Mwatana

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New Documentary by Mwatana on arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearance by all conflict parties in Yemen. وثائقي جديد لمواطنة يسلط الضوء...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Play: “The Who and the What”: Written by Ayad Akhtar, Directed by Hana S. Sharif

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Lily Janiak wrote a review of The Who and the What , written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Hana S. Sharif in the March 6, 2019 San Franc...
Sunday, March 03, 2019

Movie: The Other Wife, directed by Khalil Ismail, based on novel by Umm Zakiyyah

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Khalil Ismail 's movie His Other Wife , based on Umm Zakiyyah 's novel of the same title , is available through Amazon Prime USA. ...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Film: Timbuktu - Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako

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LinkTV allows you to stream the movie Timbuktu  ( Abderrahmane Sissako , 2014) for free until January 24, 2019. It's available on iTune...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Re-Opening of Penn Museum's Middle East Galleries

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The November/December 2018 issue of Islamic Horizons has an article by Kenneth Wahrenberger describing some of the contents of the newly re...
Saturday, December 08, 2018

Suggested Reading List from "Girls of the Crescent"

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Habeeba Husain profiled Girls of the Crescent in the 2018 November/December issue of Islamic Horizons . Sisters Zena & Mena Nasiri fou...
Monday, December 03, 2018

New York Islamic Arts Collective at Bernardsville, NJ Al-Hamra Art Center

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New York Islamic Arts invites you to the opening of the “Peace and Mercy” exhibition on December 2nd 4-6pm at the Alhamra Art Center. Wo...
Sunday, June 03, 2018

Favorite Quotes: Carlos Ruiz Zafón on War in "The Shadow of the Wind"

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Lucia Graves translated  Carlos Ruiz Zafón 's La Sombra del Viento as The Shadow of the Wind . Nothing feeds forgetfulness better th...
Tuesday, May 08, 2018

"Negroland: A Memoir" by Margo Jefferson

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I'm sharing a few thoughts on Margo Jefferson's Negroland: A Memoir . An idea which struck me was her insistence that contemplat...

Favorite Quote: F Scott Fitzgerald, "The Last Tycoon" - "learned tolerance, kindness, forebearance, and even affection like lessons"

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F. Scott Fitzgerald never finished the novel The Last Tycoon . Elia Kazan directed a 1976 movie based on the novel. Amazon produced one se...