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Tensions Mount on Turkey-Syria Border Originally Posted: 06/28/2012 - 11:26am | Type: Blog: Turkey said it was stationing antiaircraft batteries on the common border following the downing of one of its warplanes. The New York Times reports: "As diplomat ...
Tensions Between Turkey and Syria Grow Originally Posted: 06/26/2012 - 11:13am | Type: Blog: The Economist reports on the growing tensions in the Middle East following the shooting down of a Turkish plane by Syrian forces. The Economist reports on the growing tens ...
Lord, Have Mercy: Suicide Bomber Kills 75 in Somalia Originally Posted: 10/05/2011 - 8:02am | Type: Blog: A truck bomb has killed at least 70 people in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, including a crowd of young students applying for scholarships to study abroad. This just in from A ...
Nakba Day Protests: Palestine's Arab Spring? Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://www.ryanrodrickbeiler.com/Palestine-Israel/Palestine-Israel-April-2011/16441449_SnEeG#1236911459_74RXd" target="_blank"></a>The scenes were stunning: Hu ...
Thanksgiving Alone is Not Lonely Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: It had been a busy semester and the Tuesday before Thanksgiving I arrived back home from an exhausting American Academy of Religion meeting. It had been a busy semester and the Tu ...
Friday Links Round Up: 30 Turkeys Per Minute. Airport Scanners. Hogwarts. Originally Posted: 09/01/2011 - 11:15am | Type: Blog: Thirty turkeys per minute. Airport scanners. Hogwarts. Here’s a little round up of links from around the web you may have missed this week. Thirty turkeys per minute. Airport scan ...
Nonviolence and the Gaza Freedom Movement Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: Three days have passed since the Israeli navy attacked an<a href="http://blog.sojo.net/2010/06/01/the-freedom-flotilla-tragedy"> international Gaza Freedom Movement "Freedom Flotilla,&qu ...
The "Freedom Flotilla" Tragedy Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: On May 31, I awoke to news reports that the Israeli Navy had boarded and fired on 10 small ships in international waters approaching the coast of Gaza and bearing humanitarian supplies for Palestin ...
Iran's Nuclear Deal: A Success for Sanctions Diplomacy Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: The nuclear fuel swap deal signed between Iran and Turkey and Brazil is a positive development that deserves U.S. support. The nuclear fuel swap deal signed between Iran and Turke ...
The Locavore's Dilemma: What We Eat is More Than Just a Personal Choice Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: I'm a cradle vegetarian. Didn't have even a bite of meat -- red or white, fish or fowl -- until I was maybe eleven years old, and then I lost my dietary virginity to a hot dog. ...
Robed Revolutionary: Thoughts on Progressivism from the Ultimate 'Conservative' Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog: <p>The bearded, robed, and bespectacled keynote speaker at Georgetown University's Gaston Hall on Tuesday made a wise first move. His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Ortho ...
Columbus in Reverse: 'Travel as a Political Act' Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: <a href="http://www.ricksteves.com/"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568584350?ie=UTF8&tag=sojourners-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&crea ...
A Jewish-American Advocate Against the Injustice of Occupation Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog: <p>Just the basic facts about Anna Baltzer make her a provocative presence. She's a 30-year-old Jewish-American woman who is arguing passionately for justice for Palestinians.</p> ...
Keeping Up With the Kurds Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article: Rose Marie Berger Amy Spaulding Northern Iraq is part of the contested homeland of ethn ...
Bloodshed in Northern Iraq Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=The%20Cost%20of%20War&blog_id=37"></a></p> In what ha ...
New Look at Islamic Texts Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article: Laurna Strikwerda Turkey’s highest Islamic authority, the Diyanet, recently decided to prepare a new collection of hadiths without sexist ...
Real World? Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article: Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler Recently, Turkish TV launched the hottest new progra ...