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• 2006.02.21: February 21, 2006: Headlines: Cross Cultural Issues: Islamic Issues: Al Jazeera television: Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan: There is No Clash of Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages and That of the 21st Century  Friday, July 28, 2006 - 8:41 am [1]

• 2006.06.21: June 21, 2006: Headlines: Islamic Issues: The Arizona Republic: RPCV Denis Egan writes "Teaching the Muslims in the Middle East: The Good, The Bad and the Unholy"  Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 5:41 pm [1]

• May 14, 2005: Headlines: COS Afghanistan: Iraq: Journalism: COS - Morocco: Islamic Issues: Chicago Tribune: Anti-U.S. protests spread in Islamic world reports RPCV James Rupert  Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 2:46 pm [1]

• April 28, 2005: Headlines: COS - Tunisia: Islamic Issues: Religion: The University of Chicago Chronicle: Tunisia RPCV Michael Sells, one of the world’s foremost experts on Islam, will join the Divinity School faculty this summer as the John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature  Wednesday, November 01, 2006 - 4:51 am [2]

• March 21, 2005: Headlines: Art: Islamic Issues: Iraq: The Daily Star Lebannon: Paying tribute to Iraqi master Shakir Hassan al-Said before his legacy disappears  Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 2:22 am [1]

• Islamic Studies Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 12:01 pm [2]

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Peace Corps: Islamic Issues

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• 2007: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Jordan RPCV Lee Wilbur writes: I want people in the United States to realize that the Muslim world is vast and varied 31 January 2007
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2007; Peace Corps Jordan; Directory of Jordan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Jordan RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Speaking Out; The Third Goal

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Jordan Peace Corps Volunteer Andrew Sinclair writes: Islam is indubitably a religion of mercy, peace and compassion; nonetheless it must be conceded that there are some Muslims whose actions in the face of injustice, oppression and chaos are undoubtedly behaving un-Islamicly 15 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; Peace Corps Jordan; Directory of Jordan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Jordan RPCVs; Terrorism; Islamic Issues

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Tim Shriver says: I recently returned from three years as a Peace Corps volunteer serving in Morocco, a Muslim country in North Africa. I have never lived with a more welcoming, loving and caring group of people. 5 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; Peace Corps Morocco; Directory of Morocco RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Morocco RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Iowa

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Chase Nordengren writes: To solve the similar problem of opposing a different ideology, President John F Kennedy created a Peace Corps, sending groups of volunteers to former Communist states both to aid development and to counteract the American capitalist stereotype 4 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; Peace Corps Iran; Directory of Iran RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Iran RPCVs; Presidents - Kennedy; History; Islamic Issues

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Morocco RPCV P. Adem Carroll says: I began studying about Islam after I joined the Peace Corps and I chose to begin practicing instead of just study and it’s still a work in progress 11 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; Peace Corps Morocco; Directory of Morocco RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Morocco RPCVs; 911; Islamic Issues; Terrorism

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Somalia RPCV Burton Unger writes: 'The Good Fence' 24 August 2006
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2006; Jewish Issues; Islamic Issues

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: RPCV Denis Egan writes "Teaching the Muslims in the Middle East: The Good, The Bad and the Unholy" 21 June 2006
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2006; Islamic Issues

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Jeffrey Tayler has said the Muslim masses across the African continent firmly believe that the US government's politics is driven by oil and energy interests 8 May 2006
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2006; RPCV Jeffrey Tayler (Morocco); Figures; Peace Corps Morocco; Directory of Morocco RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Morocco RPCVs; Writing - Morocco; Islamic Issues

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Malaysia RPCV Steven John builds understanding of Muslim culture in Vermont 6 April 2006
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2006; Peace Corps Malaysia; Directory of Malaysia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malaysia RPCVs; Secondary Education; Islamic Issues; The Third Goal; Vermont

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan: There is No Clash of Civilizations but a Clash between the Mentality of the Middle Ages and That of the 21st Century 21 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006; Cross Cultural Issues; Islamic Issues

• 2006: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Morocco RPCV George Gorayeb recalls hearing Mr. Kennedy's speech like it was yesterday: "I decided, then and there, I was going to join the Peace Corps." 19 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006; Peace Corps Morocco; Directory of Morocco RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Morocco RPCVs; Presidents - Kennedy; Religion; Islamic Issues; Maryland

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Morocco RPCV P. Adem Carroll writes: Some Thoughts on "Post-9/11" 1 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; Peace Corps Morocco; Directory of Morocco RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Morocco RPCVs; 911; Islamic Issues; Terrorism

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: RPCV William F.S. Miles writes "The Niger we should know" 23 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; Peace Corps Niger; Directory of Niger RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Niger RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Cross Cultural Issues

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Anti-U.S. protests spread in Islamic world reports RPCV James Rupert 14 May 2005
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2005; Iraq; Journalism; Peace Corps Morocco; Directory of Morocco RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Morocco RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Protest

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Tunisia RPCV Michael Sells, one of the world’s foremost experts on Islam, will join the Divinity School faculty this summer as the John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature 28 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; Peace Corps Tunisia; Directory of Tunisia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Tunisia RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Religion; Illinois

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: RPCV James Rupert writes: Pakistani women: A cruel repression 29 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Peace Corps Morocco; Directory of Morocco RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Morocco RPCVs; Journalism; Peace Corps Pakistan; Directory of Pakistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Pakistan RPCVs; Women's Issues; Islamic Issues; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: NBC apologizes to Turkey for West Wing episode 28 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Peace Corps Turkey; Directory of Turkey RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Turkey RPCVs; Muslim Issues; Television

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Paying tribute to Iraqi master Shakir Hassan al-Said before his legacy disappears 21 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Art; Islamic Issues; Iraq

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: [Full Story] Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the US consul general in Jeddah, spoke at International Women’s Day by highlighting Saudi women’s participation in volunteer and charity work 15 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; RPCV Gina Abercrombie- Winstanley (Oman); Figures; Peace Corps Oman; Directory of Oman RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Oman RPCVs; Diplomacy; Women's Issues; Islamic Issues; Minority RPCVs; African American Issues; Ohio

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Fox Offers Disclaimer for Portrayal of Muslims on '24' 15 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; Peace Corps Turkey; Directory of Turkey RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Turkey RPCVs; Muslim Issues; Television

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Turks on NBC's 'The West Wing': Head-Chopping Lunatics 11 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; Peace Corps Turkey; Directory of Turkey RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Turkey RPCVs; Muslim Issues; Television

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: RPCV Colleen J. G. Clark writes an open letter to the "West Wing" 1 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; Peace Corps Turkey; Directory of Turkey RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Turkey RPCVs; Speaking Out; Television; Islamic Issues; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Turkish Ambassador Logoglu Sends Letter To N.B.C. Over A Serial Slandering Turkey 29 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Peace Corps Turkey; Directory of Turkey RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Turkey RPCVs; Speaking Out; Television; Islamic Issues; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: RPCV Diana Pearce writes an open letter to the "West Wing" 27 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Peace Corps Turkey; Directory of Turkey RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Turkey RPCVs; Speaking Out; Television; Islamic Issues; Crime

• 2005: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: RPCV Charlotte Jirousek writes an open letter to the "West Wing" about their episode about a woman condemned to death in Turkey for adultery 26 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Peace Corps Turkey; Directory of Turkey RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Turkey RPCVs; Speaking Out; Television; Islamic Issues; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Long-time pals Richard “Kinky” Friedman (of detective novel and Texas Jewboys fame) and Farouk Shami (founder and chairman of the board of Farouk Systems) are determined to nurture youngsters in the war-torn Middle East. Their new product – Olive Oil from the Holy Land – pays homage to Farouk’s Palestinian family roots and the deep friendship possible between Jews and Arabs 20 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; RPCV Kinky Friedman (Malaysia); Peace Corps Malaysia; Directory of Malaysia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malaysia RPCVs; Jewish Issues; Muslim Issues; Texas

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Thomas Gouttierre offers other view of Afghanistan - President Bush's assertion that 75 percent of al-Qaida leadership has been eliminated is not true, he said. "They may have eliminated 75 percent of the original (organization), but now it has metastasized, it's bigger, it's all over the world." 6 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Terrorism; Muslim Issues; Nebraska

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: At a time when the United States is striving to fight growing anti-Americanism around the world, the Peace Corps is trying to expand its reach into other Muslim countries. Right now, Jordan remains its only outpost in the Middle East. 4 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Jordan; Directory of Jordan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Jordan RPCVs; Muslim Issues

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Oman RPCV Delinda C. Hanley says Muslims Promise a Whirlwind of Activity To Get Out the Bloc Vote on Election Day 1 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Peace Corps Oman; Directory of Oman RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Oman RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Journalism

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: More Muslim countries ask for Peace Corps Volunteers 15 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Peace Corps Jordan; Directory of Jordan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Jordan RPCVs; Peace Corps Azerbaijan; Directory of Azerbaijan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Azerbaijan RPCVs; Peace Corps Albania; Directory of Albania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Albania RPCVs; Muslim Issues; Gaddi Vasquez (Director 2002 - 2006)

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Peace Corps Director to Speak at National Press Club in DC on Thursday, October 14 about Peace Corps Volunteers Serving in Muslim Countries 8 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Gaddi Vasquez (Director 2002 - 2006); Islamic Issues

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Oman RPCV Delinda C. Hanley says Al Jazeera World Forum Takes a Hard Look at Freedom of the Press 1 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Peace Corps Oman; Directory of Oman RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Oman RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Journalism

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Chris Matthews discusses Arab culture, Peace Corps in interview with Seymour Hersch 16 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; RPCV Chris Matthews (Swaziland); Peace Corps Swaziland; Directory of Swaziland RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Swaziland RPCVs; Iraq; Journalism; Television; Islamic Issues; Figures

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersch tells Returned Volunteer Chris Matthews on Hardball that "I was in Damascus just recently and they still like Americans, believe it or not. Most people make a distinction between the government and the people." 16 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; RPCV Chris Matthews (Swaziland); Peace Corps Swaziland; Directory of Swaziland RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Swaziland RPCVs; Iraq; Journalism; Television; Islamic Issues; Figures

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Oman RPCV Delinda C. Hanley says Bush and Kerry May Regret Ignoring Concerns of Muslim-, Arab-American Voters 1 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; Peace Corps Oman; Directory of Oman RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Oman RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Jewish Issues

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Kazakhstan RPCV Kevin Marousek says he was watching C Span and the Washington Bureau Chief of Al Jazeera, Hafez Al-Mirazi, was speaking to a committee on public diplomacy and the media 24 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Peace Corps Kazakhstan; Directory of Kazakhstan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Kazakhstan RPCVs; Journalism; Speaking Out; Muslim Issues

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Iran RPCV Gordon Morrison sees world faiths up close 7 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Peace Corps Iran; Directory of Iran RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Iran RPCVs; Islamic Studies; Religion

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Iran RPCV Tom Nelson helps wage a quiet jihad against the Bush administration 21 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; Peace Corps Iran; Directory of Iran RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Iran RPCVs; Civil Rights; Speaking Out; Muslim Issues; Law; Justice; Crime

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: The objective complicity is also officiated by western NGOs which are today the heirs of the US Peace Corps, as purveyors of culturally-specific aid, virulently anti modernist-state, and as providers of culturalism. This connection is not lost on Islamism: from the use of NGO sympathies and lobbies, under the title of appropriate forms of democracy (connected to Islamism, as our origin and our fate), no less than in the post-modern (but consummately modernist) critiques of Enlightenment notions of progress and of reason 21 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; Peace Corps Iran; Directory of Iran RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Iran RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Criticism; NGO's

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: A Double Ordeal for Female Prisoners in Iraq 11 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; Iraq; Islamic Issues; Cross Cultural Issues

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Dan Lutz, who has done Peace Corps work in Afghanistan and Iran, builds Arabic language program in Denver schools 26 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; Peace Corps Iran; Directory of Iran RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Iran RPCVs; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Islamic Issues; Colorado

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: THE first time Michael McColly set foot inside a religious temple other than a church was at the mosque in the Senegalese farming village he lived in as a Peace Corps volunteer 7 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; Peace Corps Senegal; Directory of Senegal RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Senegal RPCVs; Islamic Issues

• 2004: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Morocco RPCV Dan Walsh's repeated attempts to exhibit his posters, mainly drawn by Palestinian artists and some by others, including Israelis, have been rejected because of fear that they were anti-Semitic 4 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; Peace Corps Morocco; Directory of Morocco RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Morocco RPCVs; Jewish Issues; Islamic Issues; Art; New York

• 2003: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Iran RPCV Gordon Morrison, says "Muslim and Christian are brothers" 3 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; Peace Corps Iran; Directory of Iran RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Iran RPCVs; Islamic Studies; Religion

• 2003: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Senegal RPCV Dianna Stern faces accusations of anti-Semitism over opposition to Israeli occupation of the West Bank 19 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; Peace Corps Senegal; Directory of Senegal RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Senegal RPCVs; Jewish Issues; Islamic Issues; Speaking Out

• 2003: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Yemen RPCV Ghadiali - Doing Ramadan, Yemeni Style 31 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; Peace Corps Yemen; Directory of Yemen RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Yemen RPCVs; Islamic Studies

• 2003: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Michael A. Sells taught in Southern Tunisia with the Peace Corps at: (1) Medenine (2) Foum Tatahouine and (3) Jerba 28 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; Peace Corps Tunisia; Directory of Tunisia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Tunisia RPCVs; Islamic Studies

• 2003: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Tunisia RPCV Diana Ackerman teaches Arabic to increase understanding 19 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; Peace Corps Tunisia; Directory of Tunisia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Tunisia RPCVs; Islamic Studies

• 2003: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Yemen RPCV Lois Richard remembers murdered doctor in Yemen 1 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; Peace Corps Yemen; Directory of Yemen RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Yemen RPCVs; Islamic Culture

• 2002: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Senegal RPCV Bill Aossey honored as first Muslim Peace Corps Volunteer 9 September 2002
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2002; Business; What RPCVs are doing; Peace Corps Senegal; Directory of Senegal RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Senegal RPCVs; Islamic Studies

• 2000: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: 2000: Bryant Collins served in Mauritania (Islamic Republic of Mauritania) in Kaedi, Maghma, Boghe, Nouakchott beginning in 2000 31 December 2000
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 2000; Peace Corps Mauritania; Directory of Mauritania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Mauritania RPCVs

• 1999: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: Yemen RPCV Toby Lester writes about the Koran 1 January 1999
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1999; Peace Corps Yemen; Directory of Yemen RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Yemen RPCVs; Islamic Studies

• 1999: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: What is the Koran by Yemen RPCV Toby Lester 1 January 1999
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1999; Peace Corps Yemen; Directory of Yemen RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Yemen RPCVs; Islamic Studies

• 1993: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: My Body Is My Own Business - Why one woman wears the Burka 29 June 1993
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1993; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Islamic Studies

• 1992: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: 1992: Lane Victorson served in Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros Islands in Moya beginning in 1992 31 December 1992
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1992; Peace Corps Comoros; Directory of Comoros RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Comoros RPCVs

• 1989: Peace Corps: Islamic Issues: 1989: Sonia Stines served in Republic Islamic of Mauritania in Village of Zeneigha Peuhl beginning in 1989 31 December 1989
  Tags: Peace Corps Annual Report: 1989; Peace Corps Mauritania; Directory of Mauritania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Mauritania RPCVs