On my way to the office this week I’ve been listening to NPR’s series on Muslims in America. Today’s was particularly good, an interview with two Arabs working in Hollywood, Sayed Badreya, an actor, and Hesham Issawi, a director.
They talked about Arab stereotypes in Hollywood, but the interview also highlighted how much the image of [...]
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Muslims in America
September 13th, 2006 — Muslims and Islam
John Walker Lindh, Redux
September 5th, 2006 — Muslims and Islam
My friend Andy sent me a fascinating story on John (Hamza) Walker Lindh in response to my post on conversion to Islam. It’s a feature from the July ‘06 issue of Esquire that revisits how Lindh ended up in Afghanistan and describes his current life in a medium-security prison outside L.A.
The article gets really interesting [...]
Converting to Islam
September 2nd, 2006 — Muslims and Islam
As far as I can tell it’s just a coincidence that Slate has an article on how to convert to Islam the same day that an al-Qaeda video calling for Americans to convert is making headlines. The Slate piece came about because Steve Centanni, the Fox reporter held hostage in Gaza, said he wasn’t sure [...]
Back to ISAM and their amazing digital library
August 21st, 2006 — Muslims and Islam, Research in Turkey
The Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM) has a really cool system at its library, and I’m wondering if it would fly in the U.S.
Say you want to photocopy an entire book. No problem. They have two guys working there who’ll do it for you really fast.
But if it’s a recently acquired book, chances [...]
Religious Markets & 31 Flavors
August 2nd, 2006 — DITIB, Muslims and Islam
After spending a few hours at the Center for Islamic Studies yesterday I trekked back to the European side of Istanbul to meet with Ahmet Yukleyen, a recent PhD grad in anthropology from Boston University. His dissertation was on Turkish religious communities and their understanding of Islamic activism in the Netherlands and Germany, so I [...]
Center for Islamic Studies in Istanbul
August 2nd, 2006 — Muslims and Islam, Research in Turkey
Yesterday I went with Princeton professor Heath Lowry to visit the Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), a first-class research facility sponsored by the same agency that coordinates DITIB activities in Germany. When I discussed my project with Dr. Lowry in Princeton this spring he thought it’d be a good idea to introduce me to some [...]
Free iTunes Gift Certificate for Evidence of Rising Islamic Fundamentalism
July 13th, 2006 — Muslims and Islam, Turkish immigrants
I’m offering a $10 iTunes gift certificate to the first person who can point me toward quantitative data showing that Muslim immigrants in Germany have become more religiously conservative over the last 5-10 years. [UPDATE...Sorry, less than 24 hours later I found something on my own; see comments below...]
Sound good? Read on.
I’ve had several conversations [...]