- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mar 25, 2013
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Silk Road Rising's "Mosque Alert" enlists the global community
A play in progess finds six characters in search of a conversation.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 9, 2012
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The demons within
A recovering Muslim struggles with enablers in Disgraced
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Jamil Khoury, the theater activist
'We love the art form, but that's not where we're coming from. It's the desire to impact change.'
- News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, Jan 20, 2011
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1973
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 14, 2010
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Burn a Koran Day Comes to Chicago
Police are investigating a burnt Koran left at a local Muslim community center.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 5, 2009
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I Bring What I Love
Black World Cinema presents a discounted preview screening of "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love" a day before the documentary about the iconic Senegalese singer and activist opens for a weeklong run at Chatham 14.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2009
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Nice Bombs
Usama Alshaibi celebrates the DVD release of his personal Iraq documentary "Nice Bombs" with two free screenings Friday 10/16 at the Portage Theater.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 13, 2009
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Veiled Voices
Brigid Maher's documentary "Veiled Voices," premiering 9/13 on Link TV, follows three women leaders in the Middle East.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 21, 2008
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Michael Jackson: Caliph of Pop?
A respectful news story regarding a very famous musician's personal religious beliefs. (Not!)
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 21, 2007
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Almost the last word
Richard Rorty calls out the Pope, but someone else will have to pick up his sword.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 30, 2007
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Immigration folly set right
Fundamentalist Muslims in Cairo beat a Christian for not turning over a friend to be murdered for converting to Christianity. A U.S. judge saw no sign he'd suffered religious persecution.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 23, 2007
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The roots of decline and fall?
Islam turned away from science-based thinking in the 1100s. Don't think it couldn't happen here tomorrow.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2007
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Strange bedfellows?
When it comes to women bashing there's no clash of civilizations.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 5, 2006
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Blogging of, by, and for Chicago
Cattle Transit Authority, and what are Zorn and the Pope talking about?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 21, 2006
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That's not funny
Dark humor about Hitler, Islam, and the war in Mesopotamia.
