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Audio Links:

• Listen to this NPR series of reports on a century of Mideast conflict.
  
  • How do these materials present Arab culture?

• In Stories Of Muslim Identity, Playwright Explores Fault Lines Of Faith.
  • How does it discuss the Muslim faith?

• Kidnappers In Nigeria Distorting Muslim Faith?.
  • How does it discuss the Muslim faith?

• American Muslim Men Balance Faith And Love In 'Salaam'.
  • How does it depict Muslim men?

Video Links:

• Watch the PBS program “Ramadan Quran Recitation” and consider its implications.
  • During the month of Ramadan, Muslims traditionally read the entire Qur’an (Koran). At the Islamic Center of Northern Virginia in Fairfax, a well-known Quran reciter from Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Mohammad Alraee, has been leading Ramadan worship every evening. Listen to the Quran being chanted and watch the interviews with Sheikh Alraee and with Muhammad Farooq, president of the mosque.
  •  Listen to the recital.  What are the nonverbal aspects of the recitation?
  • How do the interviewees describe the message of the Qur’an (Koran)?

• Watch the segment of the PBS program “Islam and Modernity” beginning about 6 minutes into the program: 
  • As modern Egyptian Muslims attempt to deal with new technology, how does the IslamOnline.net site advise people on internet chatting and internet dating?
  •  What reasons are given for believing that modernity is not consistent with Muslim values? What contrary opinion is given?·     

• Watch excerpts from the PBS program “Dishing Democracy” on Arab women broadcasting on satellite television:
  
  • What is the meaning “Nalam Nawaem?” 
  • From the excerpts available, what topics does the program cover?
  • What possible impact can this program have on the Arab world?
  • In 1998, The Coca-Cola Company created a television commercial for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Created by McCann-Erickson (Malaysia), the commercial was the company's first attempt to have one Ramadan television commercial for the entire worldwide market. In the ad, a young boy and his mother bring small gifts to an orphanage: the mother gives a rug and basket of food and the boy donates a bottle of Coca-Cola. At the orphanage, the boy plays football with some of the orphans and makes friends with them. Later, after the breaking of the fast, the boy scampers back to the orphanage to break fast—and share the Coca-Cola—with his new-found friends. View the commercial
  • What Muslim values do you see in the commercial?
  • Is it appropriate to market a product by relating it to a culture’s values?