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

Sikhs and Sacred Ground

Posted by Eboo Patel, Hana Suckstorff 41 weeks 4 days ago

Imagine the terror.You are in a temple, a safe, sacred place, preparing for a morning service. In the kitchen, you are busy cooking food for lunch, while others read scriptures and recite prayers....

Remembering 9/11 Through Music and Literature

Posted by Eboo Patel 1 year 37 weeks 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,...

Posted by Eboo Patel 2 years 6 days ago

Free Speech vs. Fundamentalist Islam?

Posted by Eboo Patel 3 years 2 weeks ago

New Rules for Middle East Engagement

Posted by Eboo Patel 4 years 20 weeks ago

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