Middle East

Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.  read more »

This lecture examines the work of Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss academic and

Islamic scholar who has been referred to as today’s “Muslim Martin Luther.”

From an interfaith perspective and drawing several parallels between Islamic

and Catholic encounters with modernity, Baum compares the debates in the

two traditions. He argues that reform and renewal are compatible with the

substance of both Catholic and Muslim traditions.  read more »