Word: khalidi
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Debate is playing out within Western Muslim communities, too. "The immigrant Muslims often want [a minaret], because for them it symbolizes a mosque," says Omar Khalidi, an archivist at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But they cost a lot, and there are others who argue that [economically,] they're a luxury Muslims can't afford...
Unsurprisingly, it's immigrant Muslim communities that are pushing the biggest changes. "The Western mosque is fast becoming the site of contestation between the kind of Muslims who espouse the traditional mosque, and those who want to win proportionate space for women," says MIT's Khalidi. "The second generation are the ones demanding, and often getting, that kind of space." Architectural historian Khan estimates that until recently, North American mosques gave only about 15% of their space to women. Over the past five years or so, the space women have access to has increased to at least...
...discussion at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening. Shai Feldman, professor of politics and director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, argued that Israelis need to be convinced that the road to peace and the two-state solution will not jeopardize their security. Rashid Khalidi, professor of Arab studies and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, said that the world powers should focus on building Palestinian political unity rather than delegitimizing Hamas. The panel was moderated by Harvard Kennedy School Professor R. Nicholas Burns. While introducing the speakers, Burns emphasized the effects...
...under fire from the President of the Palestinian National Authority. Obama’s former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, once condemned Israel as a “dirty word.” A Los Angeles Times article from April asserts that Obama’s close connection with Rashid Khalidi, a critic of Israeli policy and professor of arab studies at Columbia University, “has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might deal differently with the Middle East than his opponents for the White House,” however pro-Israel Obama continues...
...Khalidi specializes in the history of the modern Middle East and has written extensively about Palestine. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and graduated from Oxford University...