In Perspective

Masjid Imam Husayn Video from a recent Cairo trip. Remembrance of the martyred grandson of the Prophet, Imam Husayn.

Here is a Wall Street Journal article on the exhibit America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far, at The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, for which I was the lead academic advisor. Alas, the piece is behind a paywall. The show is the fourth in the Upper West Side museum's Global Cultural Exhibition Series, intended — as the name suggests — to create global citizens. And I can attest, from both observation and ancient personal experience, that the best way to broaden horizons isn't by lecturing kids about being better people but by letting them climb into, over and through things.…

The Boston Globe has a good op-ed on some of the political dissimulation going on by both parties.