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Youth and the issues they face today

Posted in Community, Gender, Youth on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A laudable and much needed service for our communities. For details see Muslim Youth Helpline’s website.

See another noteworthy initiative here: Children’s Islamic Library
Hope other communities can take inspiration from the above two projects. For the library project, I think a further challenge would to be incorporate general educational and recreational material, especially considering the dearth [...]

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Meri Mehboob Kahin Aur Mila Kar Mujh Se

Posted in Empire, Gender, Imperialism, Justice, Materialism, Media, Youth on April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Sahir’s poem on Taj Mahal reminds one of Ali Shariati’s On the Plight of the Oppressed People. Like Ali Shariati, Sahir seeks to set the standards for beauty and love in this poem.
A question that comes to mind: Beauty and Truth, are they two separate things? Could a magnificent monument – whether Taj Mahal, Egyptian [...]

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Review – Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran

Posted in Education, Gender, Imperialism, Media, Reviews, Social/History Research on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Review: Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran (UNC Press, 2007)
By Ali A., Islamic Insights, Feb 9-15, 2009
While reading a text assigned for your class on a topic related to Islam and Muslims, ever had that feeling of frustration, “That’s NOT how it is!”? You know the reading is full of holes, yet [...]

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On Rumors

Posted in Community, Culture, Gender, Media, Politics, Society, Youth on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here is another interesting article from Psychology Today. This is the first time I have come across with this magazine. The articles in it seem to be of mixed quality. Especially, I have problem with how they essentialize males and females – their desires, attitudes, behavior – without giving consideration to the variations within and [...]

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Saba Mahmood: Questioning Liberalism, Too

Posted in Culture, Gender, Social/History Research on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Another thought provoking article:
Questioning Liberalism, Too
A response to “Islam and the Challenge of Democracy” by Khaled Abou El Fadl
Saba Mahmood
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Khaled Abou El Fadl’s essay is an erudite attempt to explore those principles and values within Islamic political and legal traditions that could be made compatible with ideas of liberal democracy. Abou El Fadl joins a [...]

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