Azar Nafisi, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, cited in Misery memoirs: why is it different for Muslim women?

Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Misery memoirs: why is it different for Muslim women?” (Samira Ahmed, The Guardian, 18.04.13): “Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s 2006 brave memoir Infidel had important insights, from her work as a translator for Dutch social services in Leiden, into how politically correct attitudes among the authorities were blighting the lives of Muslim refugee women experiencing domestic violence. Like the Iranian-born literature professor Azar Nafisi, author of widely acclaimed Reading Lolita In Tehran, she suffered vitriolic attacks from some writers and political activists, Muslim and non-Muslim, who claimed the books were somehow “Orientalist” artefacts, serving an American neo-Conservative political agenda in the aftermath of the Iraq war.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Samira Ahmed

 

Alain de Botton, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, cited in “People of the text”

 

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton, the British author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “People of the text” (Australian Jewish News. 17.04.13):  

Oz-Salzberger says the authors are sending a signal to non-religious Jews around the world that it is possible, if not highly recommended, to be deeply Jewish in a “textual way, in a cultural way, but not in a religious way”.

Separating themselves from the New Atheism construct, their philosophies may be more comparable to those of Jewish atheist thinker Alain de Botton.

But instead of employing religious structures to facilitate spiritual and meaningful connection, as de Botton ventures, the father and daughter turn their gaze to Jewish parchments and urge their counterparts to “lock horns to the end of time” on the essence of those scriptures.

Fania Oz-Salzberger and Amos Oz

In Manhattan, Reza Aslan, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, to debate science and religion with David Eagleman

 

Reza Aslan

In Manhattan, Reza Aslan, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, will debate (“Finding Our Way and Inventing Musical Instruments, Jascha Hoffman, The New York Times, 08.04.13) with David Eagleman whether science and religion are “opposing and irreconcilable forces”.

David Eagleman

Reza Aslan, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, states: “Bigotry is not a bridge”

Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Geller, Spencer and Friends Smear Muslims and Homosexuals” (Sheila Musaji, The American Muslim, 06.04.13): “For a woman who leads an organization that has been labeled a hate group to try to reach out to a community like the LGBT community, by trying to make a connection based on bigotry, is harmful and ridiculous. Bigotry is not a bridge.”

Pamela Geller

Robert Spencer

Sheila Musaji

Reza Aslan, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, states that anti-Muslim sentiment in USA is at “unprecedented levels”

 

Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in”TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads”   (Jason Linkins, The Huff Post, 31.03.13): Aslan points out that “anti-Muslim sentiment in this country is at unprecedented levels” and “about two-thirds of Americans believe that Muslims should not have the same First Amendment rights as other Americans.”

Jason Linkins