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Christopher Dickey, "The Supreme Leader: Ayatollah Khamenei's Journey," Newsweek (June 20, 2009)
Matthew Wagner, "Religious Affairs: Jesus's Zionists," Jerusalem Post (April 30, 2009)
On Messianic Jewish Zionists and their role in the IDF.
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
A sizable archive of ancient Sumerian literature in transliteration and translation. The translations are mostly very scholarly and full of ellipses.
IDF in Gaza: Killing civilians, vandalism, and lax rules of engagement - Haaretz - Israel News
Al Jazeera English - Middle East - No respite in Israeli Gaza assault
Al Jazeera's coverage of the situation in Gaza as of early Friday (1/9) morning.
UN aid shipments to resume in Gaza
The CBC's coverage of the situation in Gaza, as of early Friday evening, Jan. 9, 2009.
Shaul Magid, "Pariah or Charmed Hero: America's Obsession with Jews and Israel," ReligionDispatches (Oct. 21, 2008)
A thought-provoking piece on the deeper (and darker) meaning of America's unwavering support for Israel.
Heavy Metal Islam, a new book by Mark LeVine
A collection of profiles of Middle Eastern musicians -- metal, punk, reggae and hip-hop. Looks to be worth checking out.
Anna Blackshaw, "My Enemy, My Brother (interview with David Gorssman on the conflict betwen Israel and Palestine)," The Sun Magazine (October 2008)
This is only an excerpt from the full interview. Even the excerpt is worth a read though. Grossman is an Israeli writer who manages to combine a powerful and ongoing activism for peace and justice for Palestinians, a strong and unapologetic sense of Israel's Jewish, Zionist, and historical distrinctiveness, and a genuinely poetic sensibility. His son Uri, a tank commander, was killed in the summer-before-last's fighting in Lebanon. Themes of the interview overlap strikingly with Appleby's work, I think.
Surveying the Arab World for Ramadan's Best and Worst
A Dubai marketing firm has surveyed Muslim attitudes and practices regarding Ramadan, with some interesting results -- though I'm skeptical about some of the numbers.
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Add Sticky Note62% say non-Muslims living in Arab countries should't eat or drinking publicly during Ramadan.
- This figure would probably alarm Westerners, but it also seems kind of like common courtesy to me. One probably shouldn't eat during the day out on the street when everyone around you is fasting. - on 2008-10-07
THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem along with other local Christian leaders expresses its opposition to the mostly-American phenomenon of Christian Zionism.
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