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In The World
By Natasja Sheriff The latest news on religious freedom, at home and abroad, provides the focus of this week's In The World.
Syria: Stronghold of Secularism? Part Two.
In the second of two posts, Irina Papkova, explores Bashar al-Assads assertion that Syria is the "last stronghold of secularism in the Middle East."
Commie Harry
“What really makes these critics hate Million Dollar Baby is not its supposedly radical politics — which are nonexistent — but its lack of sentimentality. It is, indeed, no Rocky, and in our America that departure from the norm is itself a form of cultural radicalism.” Frank Rich has Clint Eastwood’s back in the Christian conservative culture skirmish over Million Dollar...
Life in the Shrine
The fearful narratives surrounding West African shrines and the ‘wives of the deity’ obscure the reality of these long-standing institutions, writes Julie Jenkins. With photographs by Dana Romanoff.
Intersections: Plate Interviews Kelly J. Baker
S. Brent Plate continues his Intersections series with an interview about the KKK with Kelly J. Baker.
Destiny and Defiance in Port Said
By Maurice Chammah "Port Said, once the pariah, is now the vanguard. As the protests turn to street battles, Port Said’s traditional independence from the rest of the country is coming out in a way it never has before."
Ahbash Rising: Religious Freedom in Ethiopia, Part 2
Protests in Ethiopia could have profound ramifications for Muslim-state relations in Ethiopia and beyond, writes Alex Thurston in the second of two posts on Ethiopia's Muslims.
The Longest Hunger Strike
By Ann Neumann There are two places in the U.S. where you can be fed against your will: a Catholic hospital and a prison.
On Not Enjoying Zero Dark Thirty… For the Right Reasons.
By Angela ZitoThis is The War. The War is far, far away, on a screen. It is terrible and distant. And most of us have never been made uncomfortable by it for a nanosecond.
Syria: Stronghold of Secularism?
Secularism has been a central part of dominant Syrian ideology since at least the 1960s, writes Irina Papkova, but is Assad's Syria truly the last secular state in the region?
