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Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. His blog, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together. He is also author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation (Beacon Press, 2007).

Blog Posts by Eboo Patel

Remembering 9/11 Through Music and Literature
Posted by Eboo Patel 35 weeks 5 days ago
Ten years on, I'm remembering the literature I read and the music that kept me going in the days and months after 9/11. I had Rumi and Whitman on my bedside table, reading them back to back,...
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Newt Gingrich: A Catholic Running Against Islam?
Posted by Eboo Patel 51 weeks 6 days ago
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Free Speech vs. Fundamentalist Islam?
Posted by Eboo Patel 2 years 6 days ago
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New Rules for Middle East Engagement
Posted by Eboo Patel 3 years 18 weeks ago
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Jews, Muslims Need a New Playbook in Responding to the Gaza Conflict
Posted by Eboo Patel 3 years 18 weeks ago
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Articles by Eboo Patel

College Students Find Life 'Better Together'
May 1, 2012

Gathering people from different faiths to serve others is one way of living out the command of Jesus to offer comfort to the afflicted.

A Different Kind of Atheism
March 1, 2012

Chris Stedman's "faitheism" doesn't hate God, it loves people.

When Faith is Attacked
January 1, 2012

It was not the stones thrown by his tormentors that made him suffer most, he said; it was the silence of his friends.

The Roots of Terror
November 1, 2011

The Oslo shooter took inspiration from America's own anti-Muslim rightists.

Partnering for a New Beginning
August 1, 2011

The fate of the 21st century will be decided by civic leader-to-civic leader relations in a global context.

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