NYT: Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/covering-marines-at-war-through-facebook/

(December 21, 2010)

via Omar

Check out http://www.facebook.com/basetrack

Kristof - We Are All Egyptians

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/opinion/04kristof.html

Nicholas Kristof: Watching Thugs With Razors and Clubs at Tahrir Sq.

The events were sometimes presented by the news media as “clashes” between rival factions, but that’s a bit misleading. This was an organized government crackdown, but it relied on armed hoodlums, not on police or army troops. [...]

It should be increasingly evident that Mr. Mubarak is not the remedy for the instability in Egypt; he is its cause. The road to stability in Egypt requires Mr. Mubarak’s departure, immediately.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/opinion/03kristof.html

Live Webcast of ICNYU Conference 2011 - sign up today!

Message from Khalid Latif:

For those of you who can't make it to the conference in NYC, you can now join us online. We'll be hosting a live webcast of the entire conference. more details can be found online at www.icnyu.org/conference/webcast or on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148233415235429

Haroon Moghul: When Is Hosni Mubarak?

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/guest_bloggers/4159/when_is_hosni_mubarak/

"Muslim-American terrorism study: Not many incidents, but it only takes one"...

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0202/Muslim-American-terrorism-study-Not-many-incidents-but-it-only-takes-one

via Wajahat

A Concise History Of Black-White Relations In The United States (cartoon)

http://www.leftycartoons.com/a-concise-history-of-black-white-relations-in-the-united-states/

via Anas

Groups slam Islam hearings as modern-day McCarthyism

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0211/Groups_slam_Islam_hearings_as_modernday_McCarthyism_.html

via Wajahat

Critics Raise Concerns About House Hearings On Muslims

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/01/critics-raise-concerns-ab_n_817171.html

via islamophobiatoday

Message from Cairo – Imam Suhaib Webb

http://www.suhaibwebb.com/miscellaneous/announcements/message-from-cairo-imam-suhaib-webb/

Al-Jazeera Video on Turkish PM Erdogan to Mubarak, "Mubarak.. We are not immortal. We will die one day,"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPdQZ6m0qsY

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments in his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."

-Archibald Macleish

Quoted in Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy by Lewis Lapham (costs 2 bucks on Amazon)

Weekly Review — By Margaret Cordi (Harper's Magazine)

http://harpers.org/archive/2011/02/WeeklyReview2011-02-01

Scott Horton: Some Questions About Egypt

http://harpers.org/archive/2011/01/hbc-90007955

Exclusive intervew: Robert Fisk meets Mohamed ElBaradei

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mohamed-elbaradei-the-man-who-would-be-president-2200155.html

Juan Cole: Saad’s Revolution

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/saads_revolution_20110131/

Slavoj Žižek: Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/01/egypt-tunisia-revolt

via Khalid

Protesters flood Egypt streets

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011215827193882.html

via Dustin

The Food Bomb by Barry Lando

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_food_bomb_20110131/

On the face of it, the protests currently sweeping across the Arab world have been driven by overwhelmingly leaderless, frustrated, impoverished, unemployed youths battling geriatric dictatorial regimes that are supported by pampered militaries—and the United States. Fueling all these protests, from Egypt to Yemen to Jordan to Tunisia to Algeria, is another common factor, one that also fueled the French Revolution: rocketing food prices.

via Rhamis

Chris Hedges: What Corruption and Force Have Wrought in Egypt

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/what_corruption_and_force_have_wrought_in_egypt_20110130/

Imam Zaid: Game Over…We Win?

http://www.newislamicdirections.com/nid/notes/game_over...we_win/

Tariq Ramadan: Egypt: the Voice of the People and History

http://www.tariqramadan.com/Egypt-the-Voice-of-the-People-and.html

Tariq Ramadan: Tunisia and Africa: The New Realignment

http://www.tariqramadan.com/Tunisia-and-Africa-The-New.html

Frank Rich: The Tea Party Wags the Dog

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/opinion/30rich.html

Witty as usual :)

Colbert: ThreatDown – Radical Muslim Snacks, Flying Robot Drones & Coked Up Vacuums

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/372154/january-25-2011/threatdown---radical-muslim-snacks--flying-robot-drones---coked-up-vacuums

via islamophobiatoday

Roger Stockham Arrested With Explosives Outside Major U.S. Mosque

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/30/roger-stockham-arrested-explosives_n_815984.html

Lesley Hazleton on the 'Domestic Crusaders'

http://accidentaltheologist.com/2011/01/24/domestic-crusaders/

via Wajahat

Excellent piece by Omid Safi on the false dichotomy of 'Good Sufi vs. Bad Muslims'

http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/archive_2011/0127.shtml

via Tabsir

Also see Safi's earlier "Who Put Hate in My Sunday Paper? Uncovering the Israeli-Republican-Evangelical Networks Behind the “Obsession” DVD"

Tariq Ramadan: From Tunisia to Egypt (Video)

Muslim Population Study

Haroon Moghul: New Report: Muslim Population Will Grow Worldwide, and Double in the U.S. by 2030

CNN: World Muslim population doubling, report projects

Conversion will play relatively little part in the increase, the report anticipates. It says little data is available on conversion, but what little there is suggests Islam loses as many adherents via conversion as it gains...

U.S.A. Today: U.S. Muslims try to counter negative perceptions

Robert Putnam and David Campbell, authors of American Grace, a book on U.S. religious diversity, found that among all the faith groups, "Muslims were a stand out for unpopularity."

However, in the Newsweek poll, 61% said they had a favorable view of Islam, although most (58%) said they don't personally know any Muslims.

"Unfortunately, many just think Muslims are living in caves somewhere in the world." 

http://bcove.me/44j4diem

Southern California Public Radio: "Are American Muslims being radicalized?"

With Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Los Angeles

& Brian Michael Jenkins, Senior Advisor to the President at the RAND Corporation..

http://www.scpr.org/programs/patt-morrison/2011/01/24/are-american-muslims-being-radicalized/

CRITICAL ISLAMIC THOUGHT- A Summer Program in Granada, Spain - June 5-17, 2011

http://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/index.php

The international Summer School, Critical Islamic Thought, is an intensive seminar composed of several courses (all of them held in English language) that aims at opening the space for the analysis and investigation of Islam not only as a spiritual tradition, but also as an epistemic decolonial perspective that offers contributions and responses to the problems that humanity faces today. The Summer School is held at a historic and symbolic site of Islamic Civilization and one of the major centers of Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain), the city of Granada in Spain. This course is offered through the Center of Study for Intercultural Dialogues, in Spain, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. The seminar will be held in the Escuela de Estudios Árabes, CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).

Our faculty is composed of internationally recognized Islamic Studies and Ethnic Studies scholars such as:

Salman Sayyid, Hamid Algar, Hatem Bazian, Nadia Fadil, Sherman Jackson, Ramon Grosfoguel, Houria Bouteldja, Asma Lamrabet, Samia Bano, Abdennur Prado, and Harun Rasiah

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS - February 1st, 2011

http://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/application.php

Jon Stewart on Egypt

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
The Rule of the Nile
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http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-27-2011/the-rule-of-the-nile