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Wanted Women — The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui — By Deborah Scroggins — Book Review – NYTimes.com

Wanted Women — The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui — By Deborah Scroggins — Book Review – NYTimes.com.

February 10, 2012
Ethics, Foreign Policy, Islam in America, Literature, US Politics

Chicago by Alaa al-Aswany

Coleridge long ago said poets were humankind’s unacknowledged legislators. But if you care to read further you might agree with me that novelists too could enjoy this privileged position. Recently, I cited the Egyptian novelist,

October 28, 2011

Ethics, Islam in America, Islamic Law/Ethics, Literature, Media, Middle East, South Africa

TV interview on crisis in Egypt & Islam and Democracy

My interview with WRAL on the Egypt Crisis
My interview at Duke University on Islam and Democracy

February 1, 2011
Foreign Policy, Islam & Democracy, Islam in America, Middle East, US Politics

IN MEMORIAM: OLEG GRABAR

The scholarly community mourns the loss of Professor Oleg Grabar who died on 8 January 2011 at age 81. Grabar was a renowned and world expert on Islamic art and architecture who held professorships at the University of Michigan, Harvard and was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study …