by Charles Cameron | Jul 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — life not quite as subtle as art, but echoing it nevertheless ] . Poignant photo of refugees sleeping in Samarra's Askariya mosque — credit Bryan Denton for the NYT ** Alissa Rubin, writing in yesterday’s NYT under the...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 7, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — art, but can you bank on it? ] . Sacagawea is for sure my favorite of the women hijabbed to the hilt in artist Stephen Barnwell‘s renderings of Islamic banknotes, US — it’s those two feathers of hers… The other two...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 20, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — today’s source of understanding addresses the tensions within the ISIS alliance — with a question about the Naqshbandiyya tagged on for our readers ] . Here, including a “ramp-up” from two days ago, is a series of...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 20, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a tale of Sunni, Shia and Sushi ] . ** It’s a remarkable image, with viral potential to be sure, but there’s a practical side to it too — I found it at the head of an IQNA (ie Iranian) article from February, titled...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 19, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Bush, Reyes and McCain as leading indicators of a difficult learning-curve ] . . Here’s another in my series of posts taken from MOOCs I’ve been participating in. This one comes from the Changing World Order Coursera MOOC from...
