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Feisal Abdul-Rauf Still not Providing Leadership on Park51

By Hussein Rashid

Feisal Abdul-Rauf’s return to the United States, first from an extended visit to Malaysia and then an a short State Department-funded trip to several Arab nations, reignites the questions about leadership at the Park51 Project. His return resulted in a coordinated media outreach that continues to confuse the issue and show that no one really seems to be in charge. Abdul-Rauf begins this media offensive by writing an op-ed in the New York Times, i…

Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…flaged nightstand. Apparently it was good PR to be shown with a book by an Arab writer. Which brings us back to Salma Hayek. Although we think of her as “Mexican-American,” she is actually “Mexican-Lebanese-American.” Her ancestors left Lebanon in the late 19th or early 20th century in search of a better life, as did The Prophet’s author Kahlil Gibran. Gibran came to the U.S. 1895, at age 12, with his mother, two sisters and brother. Hayek, who is…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…cademic discussion in linguistics engaged in a conversation about Semites? Arabic being the most widely spoken Semitic language is (once again outside of linguistics) rarely discussed in the context of its identification as a Semitic language, and Arabic speakers are not generally described principally as “Semites.” Let’s call this notion of Semites: “linguistic Semite-ness.” In response to the assertion “Jews ain’t the only Semites” we must admit…

No Democracy in Huckabee’s Orientalist Egypt

By Michael J. Altman

…inherently different about Egypt—something inherently different about the Arab world. Democracy won’t work there and we should just settle for stability, or so the narrative goes. The late Edward Said labeled this notion of inherent difference between the West and the East/Middle East “Orientalism.” In his groundbreaking study, aptly titled Orientalism, he wrote, “the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea…

Palestinian Orthodox Christians, Desperate for Help, Have Caught the Attention of Russia

By Katherine Kelaidis

…he seized hotel. The vast majority of Christians in Israel are Palestinian Arabs, although they make up a small minority among Palestinians as a whole. Their status as a minority within a minority has been a source of significant difficulty for Arab Christians, and the sizable wealth of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has made it a target for both the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority. In 2020, an Israeli District Court rul…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Katherine Zappone, made a video for the Marriage Equality campaign that is promoting a referendum coming in May. According to Pink News, she and her partner married in Canada in 2003 but the High Court in Dublin refused in 2006 to recognize her marriage. Uganda: Magazine gives LGBTI Ugandans a voice The Advocate profiles Bombastic, a new magazine “by and for LGBTI Ugandans” and its editor Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera. Reclaiming messaging from anti…

Missing the Anger for the Shoes

By Hussein Rashid

…g a shoe thrown at us as a sign of happiness or joy? We have become so conditioned to seeing Arabs and Muslims as the “Other” that we have to process simple human emotion through a filter that makes that emotion foreign. The shoe is constructed in a culturally different way amongst Arabs than among non-Arabs. Maybe. Maybe not. Does it actually have any relevance to this argument? Now Iraqis are throwing shoes at armed forces? Is this cultural, or…

Rage Against the Regime: Voices from the Iranian Underground Music Scene

By Austin Dacey

…the music works, they will either block it from being released or will not promote it at all.” “The music and lyrics, and their combination must get permission from Ershad before they are allowed to be recorded or published,” they continued. “The lyrics are of course more sensitive, and many lyrics do not get approved for publishing for no particular reason. That’s why we have seen a surge of instrumental music in Iran, and as a result amazing mus…

How New Religions Are Made

By Jacob S. Dorman

…any titles, before I settled on this one with the help of my friend Ranjit Arab, a talented editor now at the University of Washington Press. I love Chosen People because I think that expresses what is at the heart of Black Israelite identity: an assertion of chosenness, a reframing of history and the sacred. My regret about the title is that you would never know the book contains histories of white Israelites, or documents the important role the…

Imagine There’s no Islam…

By Martin E. Marty

…sts? “And the new Jewish state would still have dislodged the same 750,000 Arab natives of Palestine from their lands even if they had been Christian—and indeed some of them were.” No peace there. As for intra-Christian rivalry, Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Christianity have always had trouble, often lethally expressed. Orthodox Christians mistrust and fear the West as did their ancestors. These Orthodox would dominate a Middle East had it remain…