Speaking of Faith (NPR Program) recently re-aired an Interview with Vali Nasr about the Sunni Shia divide… I found it very interesting. Watching a few other of his interviews, his choice to paint the Shia’s as Catholics since they have ’shrines’ was one of the few parts which did not resonate with me (much of the rest did)… He seems to be unaware of the number of tombs and shrines built and revered in Sunni Turkey, India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Africa, Indonesia, etc
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yursil
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thabet
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aziz
Live chat with NPR’s Steven Inskeep about how Iranians see their country happening right now! You can leave questions for him in the comments.
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Fatemeh
This week on MMW, we discussed the Saatchi Gallery’s newest exhibition, debated details on an Israel-Palestine poster, took Boston.com’s photoblog to task for their lack of female representation in a recent series, critiqued NPR’s coverage of Sandeela Kanwal’s murder, and questioned whether Rachida Dati was set up to fail. And we linked, and linked, and linked.
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kaitlin
Hey, I’ll be blogging election night at NPR in Washington D.C. here’s a link to live updates on Coveritlive.
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aziz
NPR has a nice feature on Muslim Americans weighing in on the 2008 election. Guests include Rep Keith Ellison and Firas Ahmed.
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Fatemeh
This week on MMW, we deconstructed Sarah from LMOTP, assessed Golshifteh Farahani’s issues with Iran over the headscarf, roll our eyes at NPR’s Orientalism, celebrate the fact that Egypt has jailed its first conviction of sexual harassment, and unfurl a great Friday Links.
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aziz
There is a fresh spate of news stories on the Listen Islam feed (see sidebar below). Really interesting stuff, about China, Sudan, and Turkey.
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aziz
NPR’s The Urban Frontier: Karachi series was an excellent, detailed look at the giant port city. My personal favorite episode was the profile on Amber Alibhai, an activist fighting against corrupt developers. When goons phoned up her family with death threats, she responded by using her contacts to have the phone traced – and called back:
“And then I rang up those people and I said, ‘Listen, I’m fed up of this cat-and-mouse game. Stop threatening. You really want to kill me? I’m standing on the road outside my house with my children and you come and kill us and you get it over with.’ Because we were fed up of it.
Aunty, you’re my hero.
