Five things to do when an anti-Muslim rally comes to town.
Why American Colleges Need The Islamic Call to Prayer
Earlier this week, I published my first piece for Huffington Post Religion. I'm grateful it's received wide circulation: 4.5 thousand 'likes' on Facebook and over 200 shares. Here's the link to the piece on HuffPost's website. It is reproduced below. Why We Need the Islamic Call to Prayer at American Universities The average college student spends eight …
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Nine Months in Nine Minutes: Presenting My Fulbright Research
I discuss everything from Christian TV to ISIS.
Why I cried in Arabic class
I don’t know what exactly brought tears to my eyes, but the combination of the beautiful culture and its tragic loss; the foreign sound of bombs and the familiar sound of Shami Arabic; and the human goodness that somehow persists in the midst of evil made a lump rise in my throat. I looked over and noticed that my teacher was fighting back tears, too.
Diet Advice from the Caliph
The walls of the priest’s office were lined with black-and-white photographs of his father donning a checkered Jordanian kufiyyeh and his little sister wearing her white First Communion dress. Newer pictures of Jordan’s king, Abdullah II, Roman Catholic bishops of Jordan, and Pope John Paul II, flanked the family shots. But the most striking images …
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