What follows is excerpted directly from a commentary by Julian Zelizer that was published today on CNN.com. In the commentary Prof. Zelizer discusses how, immediately after 9-11, Bush tried to dissuade Americans from having a violent, angry reaction toward Muslims living in the United States. At one point he spoke from inside the Islamic Center [...]

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What Are Your Expectations?

By Sam Richards on September 10, 2010

We asked students to share some thoughts and expectations that they have for this semester’s West Meets Middle East dialogues. Here are some of their responses. What are some of your thoughts, fears, or expectations? What do you think and what would you like to get out of these conversations?

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Will American Muslims ever belong?

By Sam Richards on September 7, 2010

This is an interesting NYT article about how Muslims who are living in the United States are feeling about their ability to assimilate and be accepted as “true Americans.” It’s worth a read because people are scared about their futures and, quite frankly, not very optimistic about how this thing we call “acceptance” is going [...]

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Burning the Koran. Those Christians are at it again.

By Sam Richards on September 7, 2010

Petraeus asks these folks to not go through this for the sake of U.S. troops. Odd juxtaposition of actors making demands on one another. Here is an interesting CNN article.

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