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WMR: UN ‘Culture of Peace’ Video Clip

Your Name and Date:  Victoria Wilmarth 11/13/08
Title of Article:  UN ‘Culture of Peace’
Source of Article: video clip and interview from CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/11/07/vo.australia.baby.hippo.cnn?iref=videosearch
Article Summary
Time: November 2008
Place: World
Key People:  UN, Asif Zardari (President of Pakistan), Dr. Eboo Patel, King Abdullah (Saudi Arabia)
Key Concepts: Clash of Civilizations, Interfaith Tolerance
Article Summary: UN Countries joined in a meeting aimed [...]

2008 11 14 Tori Wilmarth Arab World
Culture
Islam
Islam and Politics
Islam and the West
Saudi Arabia Comments (0)

Muslims and Christians Continue to Search for Common Ground

See the following reports:
BBC
Rachel Donadio, “Catholic and Muslim Leaders Pledge to Improve Relations,” New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008, A11
Rachel Donadio wrote an article we read early in the semester on stereotyping — go to article.
More on Muslim-Christian relations
More on Stereotyping

2008 11 07 Ted Thornton Islam
Islam and the West
Stereotyping Comments (0)

Iraq’s Yazidi Community Under Stress

Estimated to number less than 100,000 remaining adherents in Iraq and adjacent countries, Yazidis are practitioners of a “syncretic” (mixed creed) religion combining Judaism and Zoroastrianism along with Manichean and (Nestorian) Christian elements.  Many are Kurds.  Yazidis have been targeted in particular by Sunni Muslim militants in Iraq. 
Campbell Robertson, “Followers of Ancient Faith Caught in Iraq’s Fault [...]

2008 10 15 Ted Thornton Arab World
Iraq
Islam
Judaism
Kurds Comments (0)

WMR1 - 2008 Religious Freedom Report: Egypt

The Middle East in the News

•Your Name & Date Victoria Wilmarth 10/2/08

 

•Title of Article/Editorial/Column (indicate which type)      
A Mixed Bag
 The International Religious Freedom Report 2008 is greeted with the usual claims and counter-claims, reports Mohamed El-Sayed

 

•Source of Article — Include a Link
Al-Ahram (weekly online newspaper based in Cairo) http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/916/eg6.htm

Time: Week of September 25th
Place: [...]

2008 10 12 Tori Wilmarth Egypt
Islam
Judaism
Middle East
NMH-PA Media Reports
Trends Comments (3)

Christians Targeted in Northern Iraq

Christians living in and around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are being targeted for assassination.  A dozen have been killed in the last two weeks. 
Story at BBC
UPDATE 10/15/2008: 
See Sam Dagher, “Iraqi ChristiansFlee Mosul in the Wake of Attacks,” New York Times, Oct. 15, 2008
UPDATE 10/29/2008:
Story at BBC about the growing fears of Christians living [...]

2008 10 12 Ted Thornton Iraq Comments (0)

Muslim-Christian Sectarian Tensions in Egypt

Tensions have been rising between Christians and Muslims in Egypt.  A frequent flash point is inter-sectarian romance and marriage.  Ten percent of Egypt’s 81 million people are Christians; ninety percent are Muslims. 
Story at BBC

2008 10 08 Ted Thornton Egypt
Islam Comments (0)

BBC Feature on Life in Jerusalem’s Old City

Go to story, links, and map
IME course guide to the Arab-Israeli conflict

2008 08 29 Ted Thornton Arab-Israeli Conflict
Islam
Judaism Comments (0)

Lebanese Christian Writer Brigitte Gabriel Interviewed

In yesterday’s (Sunday) New York Times Magazine, one will find excerpts from an interview Deborah Solomon conducted with Lebanese born Christian writer Brigitte Gabriel.  Gabriel emigrated to the United States.  She is a vociferous critic of radical Islam. 
Go to Article

2008 08 18 Ted Thornton Islam and Politics
Islam and the West
Lebanon
Women Comments (0)

New Book About the Spaffords in Jerusalem

Mark Oppenheimer reviews a new book on Horatio and Anna Spafford, who pulled up stakes in Chicago and moved to Jerusalem in the nineteenth century and started the “American Colony” there. 
The book: Jane Fletcher Geniesse. American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem. Doubleday.
Mark Oppenheimer, “Spiritual Controller,” New York [...]

2008 08 10 Ted Thornton Culture
Middle East Comments (0)

Muslim-Christian Tensions Worsening in Egypt

Tensions between Muslims and Christians in Egypt are worsening.  Christians (mostly Copts) account for ten percent of Egypt’s population of 80 million.  The government is inclined to deny the problem is sectarian.
See:  Michael Slackman, “As Tensions Rise for Egypt’s Christians, Officials Call Clashes Secular,” New York Times, August 2, 2008

2008 08 02 Ted Thornton Egypt
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