Day: August 24, 2011

Intra-faith

Lawyer/humorist Wajahat Ali tackles the serious topic of ‘Islamophobia’ – San Jose Mercury News

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Lawyer/humorist Wajahat Ali tackles the serious topic of 'Islamophobia' – San Jose Mercury News. Playwright, lawyer and humorist Wajahat Ali is known to fellow Fremont residents as a man of many projects. As we meet for an interview downtown, a passer-by interrupts to ask Ali, in Urdu, "What are you working on now?" One answer is scripting an HBO pilot, with novelist Dave Eggers, about a Muslim cop in San Francisco. Ali, 30, has made a career of writing about ordinary Muslim Americans with humor and candor. Another project marks Ali's first big dive into political advocacy, with a report…

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NYC Event: Out of the Shadows of 9/11 — Sept. 6

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You are invited to Out of the Shadows of 9/11: Millennials, Moral Vision and the Global Groundswell. Join Auburn Tuesday, September 6, 2011 from 7-9pm EST at the Jerome L.Greene Performance Space at WNYC. Or watch the event on your computer and join the Groundswell! Tune into the Auburn Web site to watch this compelling program that will give voice to a rising movement, and inform the roles that faith and morality bear in movement building – not only this fall, in next year’s election cycle, but through this coming decade. Join us September 6th and learn more by clicking…

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Intra-faith

A Ramadan Roadtrip Around The US – The Takeaway

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A Ramadan Roadtrip Around The US – The Takeaway. Two men are spending Ramadan in 30 different mosques in 30 different states for all 30 days of the month of fasting. They’re traveling 13,000 miles, from Alaska to New York City, and are speaking with us today from South Carolina, where they’re a little more than halfway through their trip. What they’ve found is that generations of American Muslims have lived in small pockets of the U.S. since the 1800s.

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