Year: 2011

Inter-faith

1001 Stories of Common Ground

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About 1001cgstories.org | 1001 Stories of Common Ground. Designed for people who believe that changing the world begins with positive change at the interpersonal level, users are invited to add their story to the many others that exist around the globe. While the site is open to all, it is especially for those in the Arab world, whose stories of positive change are often underrepresented in media. A single story has the ability to change attitudes and behaviour, dispelling the myth that the world is black and white or that stereotypes define people or actions. If one story has such…

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Politics

For Muslim politicians, running for office is the American way – CNN.com

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For Muslim politicians, running for office is the American way – CNN.com. Across the country, dozens of Muslims have actively engaged in the American political process, running for — and winning — elected offices. From a mayor in New Jersey; to state representatives in North Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, Maryland and Missouri; to congressmen in Minnesota and Indiana, American politicians from the Muslim faith are increasingly in political positions.

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Inter-faith

America’s True History of Religious Tolerance | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

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America’s True History of Religious Tolerance | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine. In the storybook version most of us learned in school, the Pilgrims came to America aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom in 1620. The Puritans soon followed, for the same reason. Ever since these religious dissidents arrived at their shining “city upon a hill,” as their governor John Winthrop called it, millions from around the world have done the same, coming to an America where they found a welcome melting pot in which everyone was free to practice his or her own faith.  The problem…

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Events

Scholar to Present Seminar on Islam for Clergy

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Scholar to Present Seminar on Islam for Clergy. Contact: Patrick Verel (212) 636-7790 verel@fordham.edu    An expert on Islam will explore its basic history, concepts and calendar at a free seminar for New York-area clergy.  “Islam 101” will be presented by Hussein Rashid, Ph.D., visiting instructor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.  When: Tuesday, March 29, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.  Where: 12th-Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Building, Lincoln Center campus  RSVP: before Thursday, March 24 to Mary Tennermann (212) 665-0732 ext. 237

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Art

Metropolitan Museum’s Moroccan Courtyard Takes Shape – NYTimes.com

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Metropolitan Museum’s Moroccan Courtyard Takes Shape – NYTimes.com. Almost 30 years later the museum was embarking on the most ambitious rethinking and rebuilding of its Islamic art galleries in its history, a $50 million endeavor. At the heart of those galleries, which will open in the fall after being closed six years, it dreamed of showcasing the defining feature of Moroccan and southern Spanish Islamic architecture: a medieval Maghrebi-Andalusian-style courtyard, which would function in much the same way such courtyards still do in the traditional houses and mosques of Marrakesh or Casablanca, as their physical and spiritual center.

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Video

‘In a Better World’ and Other Films on Islam – NYTimes.com

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‘In a Better World’ and Other Films on Islam – NYTimes.com. AT the Oscars last month the gap between what interests Hollywood and what the rest of the world seems to be doing was sharp and clear. Of the five nominees for the best foreign-language film, all but one, among them the winner, “In a Better World,” from Denmark, dealt in some way with relationships between the West and Islam.

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