The Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy has released an open letter urging President Obama to promote democracy and defend human rights in the Middle East. So far,...
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Uprising in Egypt
America in the Egyptian revolution
by Atef Said...state-owned factory, Al-Mahala Al-Kobra Misr Spinning and Weaving, went on strike after learning that their annual bonus had been cut. Not only was the strike successful in reinstating the bonuses,...
April 11, 2011
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Would America welcome Ruth today?
by Ruth Braunstein...as a widow, companion to her widowed mother-in-law, Naomi, she was welcomed onto the fields of Boaz, where she gleaned what the regular harvesters had left behind. Boaz made sure...
May 29, 2009
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How religion can bring peace to the Middle East
by Laura DuaneGordon Lynch at the Guardian writes about how religion can bring peace to the Middle East, rather than cause problems: To regard the Middle East conflict in simplistic religious terms—for...
January 12, 2009
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Death in the Middle East: What happens next?
by Wei Zhu...a Jewish real estate developer named “Sam Bacile,” trailers for the film were posted to YouTube in July and the film was promoted via various internet sites before anti-U.S. protests...
September 14, 2012
Uprising in Egypt
The power of a new political imagination
by Malika Zeghal...the Moroccan PJD. He has underlined his acceptance of the Tunisian Personal Status Code, imposed by President Bourguiba in 1956. This legal code makes polygamy and divorce by repudiation illegal,...
February 22, 2011
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Islamic feminism
by Jake AlterIs secular feminism feasible in the Middle East and throughout the Muslim-majority nations of the world? Isobel Coleman, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that it...
August 5, 2010
Religion and digital culture
Religion for commoners
by Nathan Schneider...(contra Clifford Geertz) as representing a way of harnessing collective intelligence toward collective ends: share the code with the world, and the world will fix its bugs in no time....
March 20, 2015
Religious freedom in the United States
Corporation as sect
by Kathryn Lofton...United States might be described as religions, the Internal Revenue Code supplies certain benefits to those collective bodies that apply to be recognized as “churches and religious organizations.” The exemption...
January 20, 2015
Uprising in Egypt
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
by Margot Badran...dignity of the citizens of Egypt must either go or be drastically overhauled. The Muslim Personal Status Code (also referred to as family law) structures a model of the family...
March 3, 2011