Nadia S. Mohammad, Associate Editor of AltMuslimah.com, writes about how recent events are bringing American law enforcement agencies and policymakers closer ending racial and religious profiling in the United States. (Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 15 May 2012)
After the arrest of Egyptian lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi in Saudi Arabia, Egypt-Saudi relations have been tense. But Manar Ammar, co-founder of Bikyamasr.com, urges activists on both sides to look beyond their own countries to the common goal that they share. (Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 15 May 2012)
Female inmates at a Lebanese prison have taken the classic tale of Scheherazade, the storyteller in1,001 Nights, and used it as inspiration to tell their own stories and break down barriers, writes Beirut-based journalist Nada Akl. (Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 15 May 2012)
Palestinian Israeli author Rema Kheriya Irshed reflects on her experience hiding from a missile attack last March with her son’s Israeli friends, and what it taught her about overcoming fear of the “other”. (Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 15 May 2012)
A television series that brings Lebanon together
In a new television series produced by Search for Common Ground, The Team, a former army officer decides to help create unity instead of fear along Beirut’s Green Line by bringing youth from different communities in Lebanon to form a football [American soccer] team.
As Americans – and others around the world – continue to struggle with how to talk about the tragic death of Shaima Alawadi in March, Reverend Chloe Breyer and Sarah Sayeed of the Interfaith Center of New York highlight the need for faith leaders to talk openly about violence, and work to end it. (Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 15 May 2012)
