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In collaboration PennIslamicStudies , join us on October 4 for A Woman’s Voice is Revolution: Dance & Voice as Islamic Arts. The event will include a screening of Lateef, a short film by Ahmed Zaghbouni feat. hip-hop dancer & activist Amirah Sackett. 5:30PM tinyurl.com/4m6jfabf

I don't understand this story: Pakistani beggars go to Saudi all the time. Some of them wear uniforms, others wear tailored suits. tribune.com.pk/story/2438643/…

It is a historic day when an Afghan woman is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Women’s rights activist, Ms. Mahbouba Seraj is a finalist for the prestigious prize and I wish her luck in the selection process! At a time when millions of Afghan women are oppressed & their basic

This was such a great event. All the audience are now hip hop dancers and beatboxers!

M Barghouti saying intelligent things to Farid Zakaria. Of course, FZ being FZ, he wrongly introduced Barghouti as a member of the Palestinian Authority. And to make sure his rep as an idiot remained safe, he followed it w/ an interview with Tom Friedman cnn.com/videos/world/2…

Cross posting from FB which I wouldn't do normally: The world feels like it's gone insane in the last two days. Here is a wonderful song/poem. I wish Janaab Ustad Ghani Khan's arms were still here to comfort me youtube.com/watch?v=kLPwXa…

There is some bitter irony in a country cruelly kicking out people who came there for a simple safe life, when millions of the country's own citizen's are willing to drown and be killed by smugglers just to escape it

An American art museum postponed an exhibit entitled "Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art" because it would be "insensitive" to the Jewish community. Apparently the history of Islamic art and Hamas are the same thing for them theguardian.com/us-news/2023/n…

Call for applications! 2024–25 Fellowships available for standing faculty at Penn & regional colleges and Penn doctoral & undergraduate students who are interested in conducting research related to the topic of "Keywords." Apply by March 20. bit.ly/2H48GEz Penn Arts & Sciences

This will be a great event on water and the environmental crisis in South Asia. Proud to be organizing and hosting it

Someone needs to update this story: the Director of the ME Center @ UPenn featured in this story resigned because of censorship & interference by the admin: Locust walks: Making connections and bridging differences penntoday.upenn.edu/news/locust-wa…

Respected scholar Refaat Alareer was killed in Ga-z-a today. He posted this poem a little over a month ago

this remains the most truthful thing an American President has ever said

Iran wanted to send a message to Israel about the range of its military capabilities so it bombed … *checks notes* … three Muslim countries in two days?

"Do not use other genocides" ... this is a winner

Letter to Mr. Biden from the Rabbinical Council of Jewish Voice for Peace on Holocaust Remembrance Day: jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/01/26/rab…

Welcome to the new McCarthy era

New song by Macklemore. He gets it

The final manuscript of my latest book just went in to Harvard University Press. Now begins the long wait for "After Rumi: Language, Kinship and the Making of a Religious Community" to hit the shelves. Any ideas for a cover?