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		<title>No Glasses, Day Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest contributor this week is Ahmed Elewa, a Cairo/Boston-based student of Islamic jurisprudence.
September 04, 2008
Ramadan 4th 1429 
I met a friend last night, who happens to be a Jew. He just had a daughter and named her Tali (lit. my dew). He told me that he always wanted to tell me something but never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=775&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, 6:30 am</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest contributor this week is Emma O&#8217;Donnell, a Boston-based theology student.
Amritapuri Ashram, Kerala, 6:30 am
If what we seek
resides in silence
why then this cacophony
of birds, this riotous
explosion of song bounding
off the river at dawn?
Of this auspicious hour
we have learned to expect
stately elegance, as if
each ivory leaf of morning
was meant to unfold
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		<title>The Heart of the Believer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest contributor this week is ABD, a student of political theory and a one-time regular at othermatters.org.

The heart of the believer is between two fingers of the Merciful.
- Prophet Muhammad, on him be peace (Muslim, Ahmad)

The women at the table in front of me&#8212;sisters, mother, date&#8212;lean in when he speaks.  He wears glasses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=484&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Jewish-Arab Relations in a Vietnamese Restaurant on Argyle Street</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/04/04/retread-jewish-arab-relations-on-argyle-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Fridays. This is a 25 June 2006 piece from guest contributor David K, a Chicago-based freelance journalist.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005. I had a touching experience today. I was having lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant on Argyle Street here in Chicago. At the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=469&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Fi Yadd Allah [In God&#039;s Hand]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Fridays (formerly Saturdays). This is a piece was originally shared on 13 May 2007 by guest contributor Laury Silvers.
My mother is getting old.  Old enough now she realizes that her children do not have good relationships with one another or with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=446&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ramadan Unplugged</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/09/23/ramadan-unplugged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest contributor this week is Baraka, a San Francisco-based writer and human rights activist.  She has just returned to blogging after a hiatus, now at Rickshaw Diaries.
Taking the N-Judah train through town Monday morning, every coffee shop we rumbled past had lines out the door; people waiting groggily for a cup of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=409&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fi Yadd Allah [In God&#039;s Hand]</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/05/13/fi-yadd-allah-in-gods-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 20:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest contributor this week is Laury Silvers, a professor of religion at Skidmore College and editor of progressiveislam.org.
My mother is getting old.  Old enough now she realizes that her children do not have good relationships with one another or with her.  Old enough to realize she doesn’t want to die with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=375&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>retread&#124; Fragrance</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/03/03/retread-fragrance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retreads are quality posts from yesterweeks that are given a second run on Saturdays. This guest piece by Baraka was originally posted on 13 August 2006.
What is most amazing is not how our senses span distance or cultures, but how they span time. Our senses connect us intimately with the past, connect us in ways [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=334&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wayfarers</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/02/25/wayfarers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest contributor this week is Asma T Uddin, a Philadelphia-based attorney and associate editor at Islamica Magazine.

I work at a large corporate law firm and share a secretary with a senior partner whose office is two down from mine. Today, she informed me that the partner&#8217;s father had passed away. I had heard him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=331&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Eyes: Reflections on Wearing Niqab</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2007/02/18/personal-reflections-on-niqab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guest contributor this week is Sahar Ullah, a Masters student in Middle Eastern studies at the University of Chicago.
There are reasons why we are placed in certain situations and make certain choices.  If anything, experiences make for good stories.  
Personal experience also has a way of rendering generalizations and the idea of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&blog=46480&post=327&subd=othermatters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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