Art & Culture

Little Mosque hits the Middle East

CBC's "Little Mosque on the Prairie" is set to air in Israel and other corners of the Middle East, creating an interesting case of a Canadian sitcom exporting a message of religious tolerance to various trouble spots. In a series of recent deals,...
Art & Culture

‘The Kingdom’: Kill ’em all

Hollywood's first, and most violent, movie since 9/11 is "The Kingdom." This heavy-handed action film — black (bad Arab) versus white (good American) — displays the heroics of four F.B.I agents who fly off to Saudi Arabia and kill gobs of Arabs. No surprises here; for decades seeing reel Arab corpses pollute the silver screen has been a...
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12th century Christian-Muslim exchange

The Palace "Al-Aziz" — La Zisa in Italian and English, is an Arab-Muslim monument in the Norman capital of Palermo in Sicily. The Normans were descendants of the Vikings who invaded France and Italy in the tenth and eleventh centuries. This palace is one of many garden pavilions constructed by Arab craftsmen in southeast Palermo and...
Art & Culture

Art expert to lecture on 12th century Muslim-Christian cooperation

Hashim TawilOn Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007, local artist and art expert will present a lecture entitled "Arab-Norman monuments in Sicily: Manifestation of Muslim-Christian cultural partnership in the 12th Century," at the Eugene A. Forfa Auditorium, ASCC Building at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Michigan. Twelfth...
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Disappointing architecture, stunning Islamic arts

Many reviewers have hailed the Institute of Contemporary Art's (ICA) new $51 million building on the Boston Harbor waterfront as all but a divine gift to architecture. Writing in The Boston Globe, Robert Campbell called the building "the most inventive, most interesting piece of local architecture since the Hancock Tower of a generation...
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Outing the “Israel Lobby”

WASHINGTON (IPS) — When John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt published their controversial essay "The Israel Lobby" in the London Review of Books in March 2006, their work elicited the kind of response of which most academics only dream. But it was also attacked and condemned by critics for its provocative and pointed argument that...
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The new illiterate Orientalism

How do you defend an entire nation's literature and poetry in one small book? When the country to defend is Iran, and the people who need convincing are Americans, the question becomes particularly difficult. Books like Geraldine Brookes' "Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women,"Khaled Husseini's "The Kite Runner,"Azar...
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Belly headlines Detroit Hip-Hop Summit on finance

DETROIT - When Ahmad Balshe was seven years old, he fled war-torn Palestine with his family and settled in Ottawa, Canada. At age 10, his passion for hip-hop music surfaced and was enhanced by a love of poetry and creative writing. Today, at age 22, Balshe is referred to as "Belly" and is considered to be a "heavy-weight" in rap music....
Film on Islam tied to pro-Israel groups Art & Culture

Film on Islam tied to pro-Israel groups

April 4th, 20070 WASHINGTON (IPS) — A controversial documentary on the threat of radical Islam, promoted by the two most-watched U.S. cable news networks, was marketed and supported in part by self-described "pro-Israel" groups, according to an IPS investigation. Abbreviated versions and segments of "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West"...
Arab comedians wow Ann Arbor crowd Art & Culture

Arab comedians wow Ann Arbor crowd

March 17th, 20070 Comedian Dean Obeidallah has only been an Arab for five years, but he's pretty good at it. "I went to bed on September 10 (2001) a white guy, and I woke up on September 11 an Arab," said Obeidallah, of New York, who's performed around the country and on Comedy Central as part of the Axis of Evil Comedy tour.  New York...
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