TED TALK – Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world
Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world
TED TALK – Dalia Mogahed: The attitudes that sparked Arab Spring
Dalia Mogahed: The attitudes that sparked Arab Spring
TED Talk – Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world
Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world
The Road to Emmaus: How a Christian exodus from the Middle East undermines the Arab Awakening (2 of 2)
History is always complex and layered in the Middle East, and there is always a danger in over simplifying. So I want to be clear here that I am not intending to say the history of Christendom in the Middle East has not left a bloody trail. It certainly has — from the barbarism of the Crusades to the Lebanese Civil War of the 1970s...
The Road to Emmaus 3: Egyptian Christians losing sense of home (3 of 3)
This year Coptic Christian activists reported at least four attacks on churches or affiliated buildings in addition to Wasta, taking place in the governorates of Aswan, Beni Suef, Cairo and Fayoum. A sore point for decades and even centuries has been discriminatory practices that prevent Copts from building or restoring their houses of worship. This was the case under Mubarak and the Supreme Council of...