Islam in a new world

November 16, 2008

ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD

Obama could change dynamics in the Arab world

Despising America has long been a Middle East pastime, but then the country that brought war to Iraq and orange-suited prisoners to Guantanamo Bay elected a Facebook-friendly president who speaks in poems.

September 19, 2008

Islam in a new world

Facebook reflects struggle over Islam's role

His fingers tapping like a tiny army over laptop keys, Waleed Korayem, a university student who quotes Einstein and Voltaire, skims the Internet in a noisy cafe and opens his Facebook group, the one that drives Islamists into fits of rage: Yeah, We Are Seculars and We Are Proud.

July 13, 2008

ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD

New Saudi Arabia university will have a Western feel

Up the corniche, along a coast where boats carrying pilgrims bound for Mecca sailed for centuries, a thicket of cranes rises over whitewashed mosques along the Red Sea.

June 1, 2008

ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD

Arab women stretch limits

Another in a series of occasional articles.

May 6, 2008

Islam in a New World

In the library with a leading Islamic liberal

CAIRO -- So many books stacked like brittle armies in quiet rooms above the traffic on a street of tailors and mechanics.

April 29, 2008

ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD

An Iranian's vision of Jesus' life stirs debate

Another in a series of occasional articles.

April 6, 2008

ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD

An Egyptian producer fights fire with fire

First in a series of occasional articles.

January 14, 2008

Islam in a New World

Pursuing happiness behind the veil

Teresa Malof knew she wasn't in Kentucky anymore when a cleric issued a fatwa against her secret Santa gift exchange.