Crisis of Faith: Negotiating Culture

I am really digging this video by Ta’Leef Collective featuring Imam Zaid Shakir from Zaytuna College.  It might be the melodic rhythmic music combined with the slow and deliberate idea development by the Imam that makes the video so inviting.  But I feel the most compelling idea that gets presented is this idea that living inContinue reading “Crisis of Faith: Negotiating Culture”

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Mirror, Mirror On the wall, who’s the Dictatoralist of them all?

If you go looking for bigotry and prejudices about Arabs and Muslims at the theaters you may not have to look further than “The Dictator”, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest satiric installment.  Though premised on a mash up of popular dictators from around the world channeled into a single non-Arab-yet-very-Arab-dictator, the movie promotes a farContinue reading “Mirror, Mirror On the wall, who’s the Dictatoralist of them all?”

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