E-baad-e News

Exploring the Sciences of Hadith with Dr Issam Eido

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:01:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/sF3VvXnoQrA?si=AEFsBMjOhP1xD-0j

RNS: "At historic Riverside Church, a multifaith coalition seeks to reclaim King's dream" (Jan 21, 2025)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:40:00 +0000

https://religionnews.com/2025/01/21/at-historic-riverside-church-a-multifaith-coalition-seeks-to-reclaim-kings-dream/

NYT: "Harvard Adopts a Definition of Antisemitism for Discipline Cases" (Jan. 21, 2025)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:40:00 +0000

But Kenneth Stern, who helped draft the definition while he was at the American Jewish Committee, has since become a critic of the definition’s use in academic settings, saying it could stifle open debate on the Middle East, an issue that has divided campuses since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israel.
“I would much rather universities make clear that nobody is going to be harassed for any reason and avoid these types of issues on speech,” said Mr. Stern, now the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate.

[...]Harvard, Mr. Stern said, was “opening a can of worms,” giving a tool for students to file complaints about professors, for example. “If you’re a faculty member, you know people are hunting for things,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/harvard-antisemitism-definition-discipline.html

RNS: "In New York, faith organizations prepare for Trump’s immigration crackdown" (January 15, 2025)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:09:00 +0000

https://religionnews.com/2025/01/15/in-new-york-faith-organizations-brace-for-trumps-immigration-crackdown/

قصيدة البردة الشريفة كاملة بصوت المنشد معاذ النص - Qasida Burda Munshid Mouaz al-Nass

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 11:41:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/Swn1iprwtvk?si=6rQrgYVTumUgsJ9t

(Dr. Hamza el-Bekri el-İktisâd fî’l-i’tikâd 1. Dersi) الاقتصاد في الاعتقاد الدرس ١

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:17:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/CqZ5eUK0z1M?si=JHMYwElOTTBiPvAk

"Born in Jordan in 1982, Dr. Hamza Muhammed Wasim Bekri completed his BA (2004) at al-Balqa Applied University, where he graduated from the Department of the Methodology of Religion with honors. He went on to complete his MA and PhD at the University of Jordan’s Department of Hadith. He has published many beneficial articles and works and is currently an assistant professor in the Faculty of Islamic Sciences at Ibn Haldun University. In addition to this, he has taught and continues to teach kalam, aqidah, fiqh, usul al-fiqh, and hadith at such institutions as Istanbul Sultan Ahmet Vakfı, EDEP, ISM, and ISAM."

https://iss.ihu.edu.tr/en/summer-school-instructors

Dr. Hamid Algar: Malcolm X "The Spiritual Journey"

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:10:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/tvhh-1hhHB4

Malcolm X - Interview At Berkeley (1963)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Sun, 19 May 2024 03:02:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZMrti8QcPA

Malcolm X on Front Page Challenge, 1965: CBC Archives | CBC

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Sun, 19 May 2024 02:49:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7IJ7npTYrU

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in The New Yorker: The Kids Are Not All Right. They Want to Be Heard (May 8, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:13:00 +0000

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-kids-are-not-all-right-they-want-to-be-heard

ACLU Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests (April 26, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Thu, 16 May 2024 12:51:00 +0000

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/open-letter-to-college-and-university-presidents-on-student-protests

Noreen Mayat Op-Ed in the Columbia Spectator: "What it means to be Muslim at Columbia" (May 15, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Thu, 16 May 2024 12:47:00 +0000

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/05/15/what-it-means-to-be-muslim-at-columbia/

Samaher AbuRabah in the Columbia Chronicle: Fear of being doxxed is silencing Palestinians (May 15, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Thu, 16 May 2024 12:45:00 +0000

https://columbiachronicle.com/opinion-fear-of-being-doxxed-is-silencing-palestinians

Yusuf Hafez Op-Ed in the Columbia Spectator : My final message to Columbia (May 6, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Thu, 16 May 2024 12:43:00 +0000

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/05/06/my-final-message-to-columbia/

(Part 1) Imam al-Sanūsī's Redacted Minor | Ustadh Fouad Elgohari | شرح صغرى الصغرى، فؤاد الجوهري

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:01:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/live/Tj9687UedSo?si=cDTqbFGir35V5ZCq

RNS: Amid surge of campus protests, chaplains find reason for hope in their students (May 10, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Tue, 14 May 2024 13:19:00 +0000

https://religionnews.com/2024/05/10/amid-surge-of-campus-protests-chaplains-find-reason-for-hope-in-their-students/

Rev. Dr. Serene Jones (President of Union Theological Seminary): What we have to learn from students leading the charge for justice (April 30, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Tue, 14 May 2024 12:49:00 +0000

https://religionnews.com/2024/04/30/how-showing-up-for-student-protesters-may-teach-them-more-than-shouting-them-down/

Union Theological Seminary Board of Trustees Endorses Divestment and Other Strategies for Companies Profiting From War in Palestine/Israel

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Tue, 14 May 2024 12:46:00 +0000

https://utsnyc.edu/union-theological-seminary-board-of-trustees-endorses-divestment-and-other-strategies-for-companies-profiting-from-war-in-palestine-israel/

متن صغرى الصغرى للإمام أبي عبد الله محمد بن يوسف السنوسي الحسني التلمساني رحمه الله

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Mon, 13 May 2024 14:59:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z12bQg6h4xo

Religion News Service: "Union Theological Seminary votes to divest from companies profiting from Gaza war" (May 9, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Fri, 10 May 2024 13:19:00 +0000

https://religionnews.com/2024/05/09/union-theological-seminary-votes-to-divest-from-companies-profiting-from-gaza-war/

"For Muslim student protesters, a sense of purpose mingled with fear" Religion News Service (May 7, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Thu, 09 May 2024 11:26:00 +0000

https://religionnews.com/2024/05/07/for-muslim-student-protesters-a-sense-of-purpose-mingled-with-fear/

David French in the NYT on free speech and college protests

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Wed, 01 May 2024 10:14:00 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/opinion/protests-college-free-speech.html

President Serene Jones of Union Theological Seminary (April 26, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:09:00 +0000

In a community letter, I let our students, faculty and staff know that Union is an institution committed to being a safe haven for all – but especially our most vulnerable communities. And as an institution committed to academic freedom for deeply moral and spiritual reasons, we never silence voices of protest. We value these voices, even at times when that protest is against us.
Most importantly, I reminded our students that the aggressive police action being taken on other campuses across the country will not be taken here. As their president, I have their back.

[...]

Whatever our differences, I firmly believe campuses must be places for lively, rigorous debate, where we struggle collectively to find better ways to live together on this planet, and where students have the chance to find and strengthen their voices. Education is to experience the power of collective action, to become a passionate, engaged citizen. These precious values do not flourish when protests are squashed. Democracy itself cannot flourish.
With the events that unfolded at Columbia last Thursday, we are seeing encampments of peaceful student protestors rise up on campuses across the country. While university leaders are under tremendous pressure to respond with full force, I hope this tide of intolerance can be turned towards our highest values – including a commitment to freedom of speech. Campuses should be spaces where we learn to build a better world, not a more destructive one.
In these precarious times, it is all the more important that these values be upheld. Please join us in the struggle to manifest these values. That, at its core, is what it means to be true educators.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/opinions/columbia-university-protests-union-theological-jones/index.html

Serge Schmenann in NYT: "Student Protest Is an Essential Part of Education" (April 29, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:21:00 +0000

The classic account of Columbia ’68, “The Strawberry Statement,” a wry, punchy diary by an undergraduate, James Simon Kunen, who participated in the protests, captures the confused welter of causes, ideals, frustrations and raw excitement of that spring. “Beyond defining what it wasn’t, it is very difficult to say with certainty what anything meant. But everything must have a meaning, and everyone is free to say what meanings are. At Columbia a lot of students simply did not like their school commandeering a park, and they rather disapproved of their school making war, and they told other students, who told others, and we saw that Columbia is our school and we will have something to say for what it does.”
That’s the similarity. Just as students then could no longer tolerate the horrific images of a distant war delivered, for the first time, in almost real time by television, so many of today’s students have found the images from Gaza, now transmitted instantly onto their phones, to demand action. And just as students in ’68 insisted that their school sever ties to a government institute doing research for the war, so today’s students demand that Columbia divest from companies profiting from Israel’s invasion of Gaza. And students then and now have found their college administrators deaf to their entreaties.
Certainly there’s a lot to debate here. Universities do have a serious obligation to protect Jewish students from antisemitism and to maintain order, but it is to their students and teachers that they must answer, not to Republicans eager to score points against woke “indoctrination” at elite colleges or to megadonors seeking to push their agendas onto institutions of higher learning.
Like Mr. Kunen, I’m not sure exactly how that spring of 1968 affected my life. I suspect it forced me to think in ways that have informed my reporting on the world. What I do know is that I’m heartened to see that college kids will still get angry over injustice and suffering and will try to do something about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/opinion/student-protests-columbia-israel.html

New York Review of Books: "Storm Over Columbia Nadia Abu El-Haj, interviewed by Max Nelson" (April 27, 2024)

noreply@blogger.com (Ebad) — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:15:00 +0000

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/12/24/the-eye-of-the-beholder/