Media Literacy and the Middle East – Primary Source Podcast

Sacred Matters | The Muppets are America. The Muppets offered us biting social commentary when their show began nearly forty years ago. Now, with their videos, they are showing us an antidote to the xenophobia infecting our political and popular discourses. In their videos, they are offering a hopeful and positive vision of America, which includes all of the people living in it — divorced, gay, Muslim, black, etc. — a message that will hopefully be even more explicit in their show.

In Pakistan, A Well-Known Musician Killed In A Targeted Attack : NPR. Amjad Sabri was gunned down on Wednesday in Karachi, Pakistan. He was famous for Qawwali tradition and came from one of South Asia's most celebrated singing families. Related: Why Was A Prominent Muslim Musician Gunned Down In Pakistan?

Obama-Morsi: What The American And Egyptian Presidents Should Talk About. “He needs to talk about Muslims in the U.S., to show that the U.S. is not at war with Islam,” said Hussein Rashid, an Islamic studies lecturer at Fordham University.