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A Hezbollah flag flies in Sidon, Lebanon in April (flickr/radiomaven)Gender Jihad
Islamic scholar Amina Wadud made the headlines last year when she led a prayer for a group of Muslims in New York. It was a protest of the tradition that forbids female imams in Islam and it drew condemnation from conservative Muslims as well praise from secular feminists. She outlines her arguments for change in a new book, Inside The Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam . Plus: accounts from the conflict in Beiruit and Israel's consul-general in New York responds, what it's like being an EMT in NYC, and the recent contract changes to residency requirements for city workers.
Bombs on Beirut
Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Professor in Middle East and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College and author, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Harcourt, 2006)
-says support of Hezbollah in Lebanon is evenly split despite the bombings
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Arye Mekel, Israel's consul-general in New York,
» Journey of the Jihadist (Harcourt)
» Arye Mekel (Israeli Consulate in New York)
First Responder
Eugenia Klopsis, emergency medical technician and writer of the "EMT Diaries" in The New York Sun
-living in New York City through the eyes of an EMT
» "The Potato Bomber" by Eugenia Klopsis in The New York Sun (7/10/06)
Lifting the Veil
Amina Wadud, associate professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author, Inside the Gender Jihand: Women's Reform in Islam (OneWorld, 2006)
- on the status of women in Islam and the controvery surrouding Islamic reform to include women as spiritual leaders
» Amina Wadud's bio
City Limits
Chris Jones, vice president of research at the Regional Plan Association,
-on the dropping of the residency requirement in the city worker's contract
» Regional Plan Association
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