Sightings Articles
Secular Revolutions, Religious Landscapes by Shatha Almutawa
While the Middle East uprisings have not revolved around religion, faith has not been absent from Arab scenes of protest in the last two months. God and scripture are invoked by revolutionaries and those who oppose them for the simple reason that Ara...
February 24, 2011
The Persecution of Religious Minorities in Iraq by Shatha Almutawa
About a thousand years ago, a group of Iraqi philosophers in Basra wrote a dialogue between a Muslim in hell and a Muslim in heaven. The Muslim in heaven asked the Muslim in hell what he had done that led him to hell. The Muslim in hell responded t...
June 10, 2010
Propaganda, Islam, and the Election — Shatha Almutawa
This Ramadan, Muslims and Arabs across the United States have come face to face with questions of identity and portrayal, as 28 million copies of the movie Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West were distributed in fourteen swing states, in ...