Demand for U.S.-Born Imams Up in American Mosques In the introduction of Progressive Muslims, Omid Safi, the editor, says that one of the biggest concerns among those who care about the current state of the American Muslims is the growing fundamentalism among the American Muslims. One of the points…
Anjing! Atau, untuk lebih puasnya: Asu! Tak peduli apa kata orang, saya yakin “anjing” adalah motor penggerak terpenting dari kisah “Tiga Lelaki dan Seekor Anjing yang Berlari” karya Yusi Avianto Pareanom. Di sini kata anjing saya gunakan untuk merujuk ke dua arti pentingnya dalam peradaban kontemporer Indonesia: baik…
Di negara dengan empat musim, minggu ketiga bulan September adalah saatnya musim gugur secara resmi dimulai. Hari-hari itu, daun-daun sudah mulai berubah warna, dari hijau segar menjadi agak suram, atau bahkan mulai menuju coklat. Pada pohon-pohon tertentu, daun mulai berubah menjadi merah. Artinya keindahan baru akan dimulai. Di…
Chances are you have seen action movies where you see negative portrayals of Arab characters, whether they be in turbans, desert camos, or suits and ties. Or probably you’ve also seen main characters in a movie talk about the Arabs as some distant, primitive people. Indeed, Hollywood has…
Flags are at half-staff today all over the United States. I didn’t get the chance to check what it was for, but by common sense I knew pretty much the reason behind it. It’s been a sad, sad week for the United States. A number of sad events…
A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant This link documents the moment when the new Miss America was inaugurated as Miss America. The outrageous reactions came from the twittosphere as people found that this new Miss America was an…
Narrating the life of an Arab immigrant family in a small town of upstate New York, Arabian Jazz is a powerful reinterpretation of the American dream and the idea that the United States is the land of immigrants. If we are so familiar with the myth of the…
Kelak, saat Amerika Serikat sudah lingsir dari hidup saya dan menjadi bagian dari sejarah pribadi saya, mungkin salah satu hal yang paling mengingatkan saya kepada Amerika adalah “drive-through” (dan tentu saja “mobil”). Bagi saya, Amerika adalah negara drive-through, negara di mana orang-orang tidak bisa lepas dari mobilnya, di…
It’s September 11 today. For a very obvious reason, this date has now only referred to the Twin Towers Incident in 2001 or more commonly known as the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. This historical event has eclipsed many other historical events that took place in September 11, such as…
Untuk menambahkan lagi potret-potret binatang yang pernah saya ambil sejauh ini, perkenankanlah saya sampaikan kepada Anda sekalian anjing keluarga teman saya yang tinggal di sebuah kota kecil (atau bisa disebut desa, mungkin) di negara bagian Arkansas. Anjing pertama, yang potretnya ada di atas, bernama lucu: Comet. Anjingnya nggak…
