The Muslim Voices Festival has begun, and I’ll be posting soon on Religion Dispatches. However, the NYT has started running some coverage, including this piece on Muslim women artists. Will tryt to check it out (after the music festival) and report.
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CallQuest
A neat little project to get pictures of mosques and recordings of the call to prayer from those sites. I will try to add when I get a chance. Technorati Tags: Islamic Architecture, Mosque
9/11 Tenth Anniversary, “Ribbons Of Hope” Project – a set on Flickr
9/11 Tenth Anniversary, "Ribbons Of Hope" Project – a set on Flickr.
Of Concentration Camps and Comic Books
Naif Al-Mutawa, mastermind behind the 99, writes a column about growing up in NY. If we can show how perceptions are unfairly formed, we can take great leaps in a single bound towards transforming them. And what better characters to explore such issues than Superman and Batman who were created by Jewish young men from New York and Cleveland at the height of anti-Semitism and THE 99 who were created by a Muslim during the height of Islamophobia (and who went to camp with a bunch of Jews from Cleveland and New York!).