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...actively involved in the Undergraduate Council, the South Asian Association, Project East, Eleganza, Cultural Rhythms, and Ghungroo. She has also been recently elected the secretary of the Hasty Pudding Club...
This unusual, timely and beautiful film, Journey to Mecca, presents a more sympathetic interpretation of Islam both to the West and to the East. It shows the profoundly devotional aspect of a religion that has been thoroughly demonized since the cataclysmic events of 9/11. The rituals of the pilgrimage that bring together literally millions of worshippers every year to Mecca, presume and proclaim “Peace” in the world. Peace is of the essence since the worshippers themselves come from entirely different backgrounds, from all colors, and all climates...
...Batuta was certainly a most amazing person. The full account of his travels across an immense geography from Tangier to the Crimea, from Byzantium to Delhi and Calicut and the Maldives, perhaps to China, but also to East and West Africa, fill many engrossing volumes. He has provided an account of peoples and societies with the eye of a learned and interested observer at a moment in history that would be the envy of any travel writer to-day. If the film does nothing but intrigue the viewers to become more acquainted with this astonishing story, it will have served...
...with a smile, calling this "the longest, most complicated and maybe most tiring" of the Pontiff's 12 foreign voyages. Benedict, his face toasty bronze from a week of public appearances under consistently sunny skies, repeated his call to seek signs of hope in an otherwise bleak Middle East landscape. Having just come from deep prayer at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Jesus' death and resurrection, he also passionately urged people of all faiths to make religious pilgrimages...
...reconciliation - and his reading of the Christian gospel - to a religiously charged and troubled land. But the jury is still out on whether this theologian Pontiff has the geopolitical wherewithal to matter in these complicated times. With the Obama Administration gearing up to try to jump-start Middle East negotiations - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington next week - the Pope's presence in the region could have offered an extra jolt of momentum. Instead, the conflicts and expectations of the regions' opposing parties, as well as a papal tentativeness on certain issues, produced a number of muddled messages...