Linksies 3/27/12

Around the World

• Turkey vs. Iran: the regional battle for hearts and minds
• Toulouse: Let’s not play politics with murder
• Conversion: A Mexican village’s evangelical shift
• A boy to be sacrificed: growing up gay in Morocco
• Saudi woman to carry Olympic flame
• Situating Imran Khan’s Islamism

In these United States

• Shaima, Trayvon and the race debate
• Call me Ehsaan, an American cultural translator
• Failing to educate poor & minority students
• Ahmed Ali could be Trayvon Martin
• Rick Warren shouldn’t have to defend interfaith efforts with Muslims
• Muslim convert leads CIA hunt for terrorists
• Why you shouldn’t tell US border patrol you’re in Islamic Studies

Culture

• Hunger Games disappoints racist fans
• Unlearning the obsession with fair skin
• Good things about Twitter
• Why Facebook is killing God
• The Hunger Games vacation spot
• The righteous mind: why working-class Americans vote GOP

Multimedia

• Am I suspicious? Howard University video campaign
• Sudan’s mountain refuges
• Islam & race: a North American perspective
• Women’s suffrage in Chicago
• Dance with Ehab in Palestine
• Spectacular Northern Lights in Norway
• The French left & Islamophobia Tariq Ramadan & John Rees