Who Will Come to America’s Aid? July 21/2020 by BNimri Aziz
USA needs help. Let’s face it: our democratic institutions aren’t working well; our president is behaving like a depraved, spiteful monarch; our police, with almost 19,000 independent units nationwide, are unmanageable; our unprecedented social and economic divides are growing; the health of our citizens is declining; new digital platforms are sources of unprecedented hate and ...
Eps. 2 Dearborn Blog Live Discussions – The Threat of Cancel Culture on Free Speech [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXAAZq9-KaM Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a ...
Eps. 21 We Are In This Together – Olga Kovtun – Allatra Movement [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgLd0Yqe-1w Olga Kovtun is a marketing professional, that helps her clients with marketing strategy development, websites, and branding. Olga Kovtun is a volunteer for ALLATRA International Public Movement organization, project Creative Society (www.allatraunites.com) - a global project run by volunteers from more than 140 countries with a goal to find out, how do we envision ...
On Deep Work Tents and the Struggle for Focus in an Age of Social Distance by Cal Newport
On Deep Work Tents and the Struggle for Focus in an Age of Social Distance Jessica Murnane is a wellness advocate, writer, and podcaster who interviewed me on her show not long ago. Earlier this year she signed a deal with Penguin Random House to write a new book. This was great news, except for ...
Eps. 20 We Are In This Together – Antonio Rafael – Southwest Detroit [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnK_zU_KqE Antonio Cosme is an indigenous (Coahuiltecan and Boricua) writer, public speaker, entrepreneur, radical economist, educator, artist, beekeeper and farmer from Southwest, Detroit. Much of his work has been dedicated to lecturing, writing, and acting in opposition to the neoliberal assault on Detroit and water. His media, interviews, viral street art, blogs, and articles have ...
منتدى الحوار الإسلامي يقدم حوار مع كتاب فوبيا المقدّس مع الكاتب مصطفى العمري، و الدكتور فارس التميمي، و يدير الحوار وسام شرف الدين [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrA82IySWCk منتدى الحوار الإسلامي يدعو إلى التعريف الشامل بـ الإسلام الحضاري المتجدّد ومبادئه الإنسانية وقيمه العالمية، التأكيد على الوحدة الإسلامية والتعايش الديني، التأكيد على وحدة الأسرة البشرية وتحقيق التعارف بين الناس من أجل تفعيل القيم الإنسانية، العمل على إيجاد تعاون بين الناس لمقاومة التيارات الخلافية والانحرافات الخلقية ولإزالة كل أسباب التفكك الأسري والتفسخ الاجتماعي، التأكيد ...
Soft Power: Americans in Its Grip at Home Must Face the MischiefIt Wields by BNimri Aziz July 11/2020
I suspect most Americans would approve of what they understand to be this nation’s global cultural reach as expressed through its ‘soft power’. A term coined by an American political scientist, soft power “involves shaping the preferences of others through appeal and attraction”. Contrasted with coercive measures, it’s achieved largely through cultural means, although nevertheless ...
Eps. 19 We Are In This Together – Dr. Sadaf Jaffer – Dearborn [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cctX8ddIycw Sadaf Jaffer is an elected official, scholar, and activist. She was first elected to the Montgomery Township Committee in 2017. In January of 2019, she was sworn in as mayor, becoming the first South Asian woman to serve as mayor of a municipality in New Jersey, and the first Muslim woman to serve as ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم أمسية شهر تموز 2020م [podcast/video]
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Eps. 1 Dearborn Blog Live Discussions – Anti-Statue Movement, Between Reform & Absurdity [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZD5dYKjjzA "The United States’ frenzy of statuary iconoclasm has taken a turn into the theater of the absurd. Knocking down or defacing statues of national founders or heroes not only displays ignorance of history but also assaults the principles of Western civilization that allow for racial progress to continue." Henry Olsen "I think a statue ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم أمسية شعرية مع الشعر المحكي من لبنان [podcast/video]
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Eps. 18 We Are In This Together – Dr. Sally Howell – Dearborn [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SOhTS0Hl3Q Sally Howell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Director of the Center for Arab American Studies. Her books include Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit After 9/11 (2009, Russell Sage Foundation Press), Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade (2011, Wayne State University Press), and Old Islam in Detroit: ...
Muslim Heroines Find their Way into New American Literature by B. Nimri Aziz. June 21, 2020
Years ago in John Killins' writers’ workshop of largely African Americans, one member woefully explains the thwarted plot of her novel in progress: -- how, despite her effort to feature a Black hero: “By the second chapter, I had killed him off”. That Black character, even in her imagination, was irretrievably doomed; in a fictional ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم أمسية شعرية مع شعراء السعودية حوراء الهميلي، حبيب المعاتيق، و يحيى العبد اللطيف، تقدمة أمير المحمد صالح [podcast/video]
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On Social Media and Character by Cal Newport
On Social Media and Character Madison Fischer, a professional sport climber, recently pointed me toward an insightful essay she published on her blog about her battle with social media. Early in her climbing career, Madison was exposed to Instagram. At first she posted pictures of her cat; then pictures of competitions; then her training; then ...
Eps. 17 We Are In This Together – Sharine Atif – Cairo [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbd0GDVFrE We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized ...
Eps. 16 We Are In This Together – Lea Gorius- From France [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLgGCBQVb-k We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم: أمسية شعرية من لبنان مع الدكتورة يسرى البيطار، سارة بشار الزين، أسيل سقلاوي، وحنان فرفور [podcast/video]
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Eight minutes, Forty-sixSeconds by B Nimri Aziz June 5, 2020
Eight minutes, forty-six seconds is a long time: a long time when you are meditating; a long time while waiting for a protest march to pass; a long time with your finger on the video button of your phone following a scene of terror; an unimaginable time when you are being slowly crushed by human ...
FFID – I Can’t Breathe … The Wake-Up Call to Systematic Racial Injustice [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egu_C47qNQ&feature=youtu.be Forum for Islamic Dialogue presents a discussion about Anti-Black Racism in America titled "I Can't Breathe" hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, and guests are: Imam Elahi: the spiritual leader of the Islamic House of Wisdom (IHW) in Dearborn Heights, one of the largest religious institutions in the state of Michigan. Imam Dr. Achmat Salie: a ...
On Running an Office Like a Factory by Cal Newport
On Running an Office Like a Factory I was recently browsing the archives of the MIT Sloan Management Review (as one does), when I came across a fascinating article from the Fall 2018 issue titled “Breaking Logjams in Knowledge Work.” The piece starts with a blunt observation: “If you work in an organization, you know ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم: تاريخ الأعلام العربية واحتفال ذكرى النكبة وانتصار المقاومة والفنان هادي الدبق [podcast/video]
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Eps. 15 We Are In This Together – Omar Al-Fotihi – From Yemen, Local to NY [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQBu8RhVYM0 Omar Al-Fotihi is a Multimedia Producer at Human Rights Watch. He films, produces, and edits video and multimedia stories with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Omar has supervised and trained HRW staff on video storytelling and led creative meetings. His work has been broadcasted globally on news outlets, displayed ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يقدم: المنتديات الثقافية في جنوب لبنان … بين الريادة والرتابة [podcast/video]
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Eps. 14 We Are In This Together – Shatha Sbeta – From Libya to California [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thgovYBlf8o We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized ...
Can Remote Work Be Fixed? My Latest Article For The New Yorker by Cal Newport
Can Remote Work Be Fixed? My Latest Article For The New Yorker Earlier today, I published my latest article for the New Yorker. It’s titled: Can Remote Work Be Fixed? In this semi-epic long-form essay, I dive into the history of the remote work movement, documenting why, after decades of excitement, it ended up falling ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يحتفل بالمئوية الأولى لمؤتمر وادي الحجير بمشاركة نخبة ثقافية من لبنان
مقدمة السيد وسام شرف الدين:ـ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlvMIOXBhA سيداتي آناساتي سادتي، طابت أوقاتكم بكل خير و السلام عليكم، نرحب بكم في البث المباشر للمنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن، تقدمة المركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة والفنون، في ندوة جديدة عبر الفضاء الإلكتروني لشهر آذار مايو لعام 2020م، في خضم جائحة الكورونا التي ألمّت بكرتنا الأرضية، فأنسنت المسافة بيننا، و جمعتنا ...
FFID – Islamic Dialogue … Goals & Challenges [Video/Podcast]
Questions that are discussed in this episode: 1. How do you see or define Islamic Dialogue and why do you feel it is important? 2. How do you assess the current situation of Islamic Dialogue? 3. What should the goals of Islamic Dialogue be? 4. What are the challenges of Islamic Dialogue? 5. What is your personal experience with Islamic Dialogue in your life and especially in your community?
5-20-2020 Dearborn Open Mic English [Podcast/Video]
Arab American Center for Culture and Arts invite you for another night of poetry, music, and culture with the Dearborn Open Mic English (DOME) at 10PM on the third Wednesday of each month. This episode on May 20, 2020, will feature a talk by Professor Dr. Hani Bawardi titled "New Perspectives on the Pen Bond (AlRabitah AlQalamiyah) on Their 100 Year Anniversary". It will also feature poetry from Amal Baydoun for the first time. Other poets will participate in the open forum. There will be a special live performance by Samer Sarhan and Kareem Kanouh.
Let Go to Grow: On a Blogger’s Decision to Trade Social Media for a Quieter Life by Cal Newport
Let Go to Grow: On a Blogger's Decision to Trade Social Media for a Quieter Life A reader recently pointed me toward an interesting essay. It was written by a blogger and podcaster named Mika. “I’ve thought about how to start this post FOR MONTHS,” she begins, before building to her reveal: “When I hear ...
Mocking Birds in This 2020 Spring by B. Nimri Aziz May 20/2020
Our seas and rivers look cleaner; our air feels fresher, quieter; our streets and roadways are abandoned. Panic shopping for household supplies has passed, only to be replaced by lines of mothers and fathers at food banks while UberEats and Grubhub hand-deliver to others at any cost. In U.S. detention camps, miserable crowds are shamelessly ...
Have Nepal’s People Managed a Healthy Breakthrough in the Covid-19 Crisis? By B. Nimri Aziz 04/25/2020
“We’re all going to die!” This feeble appeal came in a Facebook phone call with B. Thapa from deep within Nepal’s eastern hills. Our conversation was in early March when news headlines from Italy and the U.S. began to alarm Nepalis. With no information about the spread of the disease in his country, this schoolteacher ...
منتدى الحوار الإسلامي يقدم التقريب فكراً وممارسةً وتحديات مع الشيخ محمد علي الحاج العاملي والشيخ إياد عبد الله من لبنان [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxvOeKa5Lgw منتدى الحوار الإسلامي يدعو إلى التعريف الشامل بـ الإسلام الحضاري المتجدّد ومبادئه الإنسانية وقيمه العالمية، التأكيد على الوحدة الإسلامية والتعايش الديني، التأكيد على وحدة الأسرة البشرية وتحقيق التعارف بين الناس من أجل تفعيل القيم الإنسانية، العمل على إيجاد تعاون بين الناس لمقاومة التيارات الخلافية والانحرافات الخلقية ولإزالة كل أسباب التفكك الأسري والتفسخ الاجتماعي، التأكيد ...
منتدى الحوار الإسلامي يقدم عوائق الحوار الإسلامي وكيف نتجاوزها [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh3XMyIkDEA منتدى الحوار الإسلامي يدعو إلى التعريف الشامل بـ الإسلام الحضاري المتجدّد ومبادئه الإنسانية وقيمه العالمية، التأكيد على الوحدة الإسلامية والتعايش الديني، التأكيد على وحدة الأسرة البشرية وتحقيق التعارف بين الناس من أجل تفعيل القيم الإنسانية، العمل على إيجاد تعاون بين الناس لمقاومة التيارات الخلافية والانحرافات الخلقية ولإزالة كل أسباب التفكك الأسري والتفسخ الاجتماعي، التأكيد ...
Eps. 13 We Are In This Together – Shireen Soliman from NYC [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPYXvh8ANs4 We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized world. ...
السيد حسين شرف الدين يقدم كلمة للمركز العربي الأمريكي للثقافة والفنون بمناسبة الاحتفال بمئوية مؤتمر وادي الحجير
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sklbzBck3Ss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVxxLZKlIhY
Eps. 12 We Are In This Together – Sami Abdallah from Germany [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXp9WVerWqA We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized world. ...
منتدى الحوار الإسلامي يقدم شروط ومقدمات الحوار الإسلامي [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnM-SYolmJI في اقوالنا المأثورة قول "شرط الإلفة رفع الكلفة" الكِلفة هنا التكلّف، وقد قال الامين : "شر الاخوان مَن تُكُلّف له" وعلى نفس السياق يبدو من شروط الدخول الى الجنة والحديث الودي بين ساكنيها وهم على سرر متقابلين حيث لا لغو ولا تأثيم ، هو شرط رفع الغل من صدورهم ... وَنَزَعۡنَا مَا فِی صُدُورِهِم ...
Another Tale of Finding Depth in a Locked Down Life by Cal Newport
In my last post, I profiled a novelist who took advantage of the lockdown to slow down; giving herself more than enough time and space to inhabit her manuscript revisions. This shift allowed her to tap a “mysterious” source of creativity and finish her work ahead of schedule. In response, a reader sent me some ...
On Doing Less to Produce More: A Novelist Embraces a Minimalist Lockdown by Cal Newport
I recently received an email from a writer in New York City who sold her debut novel right before the coronavirus lockdown. She had until mid-April to finish her first round of revisions. In an effort to make the process more “fun and fluid and intuitive,” and feature less of the stressful long hours she ...
المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن يحتفل بمئوية مؤتمر وادي الحجير [podcast/video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cixvWr0Tfio Dearborn Blog Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1hxDsFOrInsxK95AY0dInM Dearborn Blog Podcast for Apple devices: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dearborn-open-mic Podcast for Android device:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dearborn-blog/dearborn-open-mic Open Mic Archive: Dearbornblog.com/openmic Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/dearbornblog Follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/dearbornblog Follow us on Instagram: Instagram.com/dearbornblog Subscribe to our Youtube Chanel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCziFy4hrJjtVDILGnBJpcTQ Playlists: Arabic Videos from Dearborn Open Mic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHbIXkD8v4aGXHRHhnpc67LvGUuCVzsCx English Videos from Dearborn ...
Eps. 10 We Are In This Together – Abdul AlMutairi from Saudi Arabia [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXV38BNwIo We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized world. ...
Film Review– Midnight (Afghan) Travelers
🙏May Day--Celebrating International Workers since 1904. Our Heritage 💥 Family Stories from Ground Zero, by a New Generation of Filmmakers. By BNimri Aziz For two decades now, following U.S. invasions of Afghanistan, then Iraq, and as we approach ten years of upheaval in Syria and five in Yemen, interpretation of these wars has been the ...
منتدى الحوار الإسلامي يقدم الحلقة الأولى من سلسلة الوحدة الإسلامية [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHH-iZJsDx4 منذ قرن أو يزيد ومخلصون من الأمة يسعون للتقريب بين المذاهب والفرق الإسلامية، خاصة بين الشيعة والسنة الفرقتان اللتان تمثلان المحورين النشطين في ثقافة وفقه الإسلام منذ زمن، غير أن هناك طرح آخر لعله الأولى والأنفع ، وهو أن نعيد طرح الدين كله طرحا لا مذهبيا، حيث لم تكن المذاهب والفرق إلا ثمرات ...
UMS Presents Arab World and its Diaspora
https://ums.org/series/the-arab-world-and-its-diaspora/ Includes Four Events in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Season Tickets available starting Monday, May 4 at 10 am. Southeast Michigan is home to a historic, celebrated, and diverse Arab community. This season, an expert advisory group composed of artists, scholars, and community leaders from our region has helped UMS co-curate a portfolio of performances ...
Building a WWII Bunker in an Office Building by Cal Newport
Building a WWII Bunker in an Office Building April 29, 2020 A reader recently sent me another entertaining example of the deep life in action. He runs a design firm with an office in a warehouse-style building that included a cool feature: a “patio,” cantilevered high above the main floor, where he could relax or ...
Eps. 9 We Are In This Together – Talal Matar from Kuwait [Video/Podcast]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuQ4dAzCMA We are in this together is a non-scripted, live, non-profit, broadcast by Dearborn Blog, hosted by Wissam Charafeddine, to have conversations, that become oral history records, of our lives during the COVID19 pandemic also known as coronavirus Pandemic. These are personal stories of our lives during these unprecedented social isolation measures, in a globalized world. ...
منتدى الحوار الإسلامي ينطلق بندوة بعنوان “واقع ومستقبل الحوار الإسلامي” [Video/Podcast]
الأخوة الكرام و الأخوات الكريمات السلام عليكم و أمسيتم بكل خير، نتقدّم إلى الأمة الإسلامية بالتهنئة بحلول شهر رمضان الكريم، الزائر الذي لا يكل، و الضيف الذي لا يُمل، يأتينا بموعده كل سنة، مهما ألمّت الخطوب، و تقلبت الأحداث آن على فرح فالموج ملتئمٌ آن على حزن فالموج منقسمُ و إنه لمن دواعي السرور لدي ...
Bring Back Blogs? by Cal Newport
Bring Back Blogs? April 25, 2020 My latest article for WIRED offers a suggestion about improving our information response to the current pandemic. In the piece I acknowledge that Twitter’s algorithms, in particular, have actually been pretty useful in helping to surface otherwise obscure experts who are suddenly intensely relevant to the moment (I document, ...
Building a Deep Work Cabin…in an Apartment by Cal Newport
Building a Deep Work Cabin…in an Apartment April 24, 2020 I recently received an attention-catching email from a 29-year-old professional trumpet player. He told me that during his first year studying at a well-known music conservatory his girlfriend convinced him to join Facebook. “Somehow I had a feeling that the whole thing robs me from ...
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