Chowraha: Blogging Heads: Islamic Triumphalism?

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Welcome to Chowraha - crossroads!

Chowraha is the crossroads of thoughts, events, opinions and feelings...all that have been shaped by individuals living in an increasingly complex world inter-connected through various means of communications.

This blog is about the crossroads in society - whether it is those of a diaspora community, global media complicating the structure of nations and cultures, or individuals finding parallels in spaces unknown to them.

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The above picture is courtesy a much-admired photographer (Ali Khurshid) whose work is a source of inspiration and reaffirms the belief in the complex beauty of this world.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

This was taken from the video portion of The New York Times as part of the Opinion section

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/08/04/opinion/1247468571224/bloggingheads-islamic-triumphalism.html?ref=global-home

Joshua Cohen, left, of Stanford University and James Pinkerton of Fox News debate the mosque near ground zero.

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Fiza (Owner)

Fiza is originally from Karachi and currently settled in London. She studied International Relations in the Bay Area, California and is currently a Masters student at SOAS majoring in Global Media & Post-National Communication. She worked for 2 years in the development sector in Pakistan in the fields of Marketing, Communications and Fund-raising. Since 2009 she has been leading the social media and e-marketing of dreamfly, UK WILPF, and Nature's Basin while also being a supporter of Zindagi Trust. She is extremely interested in the "other"-ing of certain peoples by media and the interplay of media with politics, culture and identity-making.

Lena (Guest Writer)

Lena has spent most of her life traveling between cities of USA, Ukraine and Pakistan. She is an under-graduate student at American University, Washington DC in International Studies. She also spent a year in Cairo as an exchange student. Lena is extremely interested in looking at the comparison of various cultures on peoples and finds herself critical of the overwhelming number of stereotypes of both Western and Middle Eastern cultures that she sees in various mediums throughout her studies

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Blogging Heads: Islamic Triumphalism?

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