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June 19, 2009: Role of Religion in Iran Election
Geneive Abdo, Iran analyst at the Century Foundation, says the mass demonstrations challenging Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameni, are unprecedented. "It's believed that he more or less authorized the rigging of this election," says Abdo.
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June 19, 2009: Geneive Abdo: The Religion Factor in Iran’s Political Crisis
Geneive Abdo, Iran analyst at the Century Foundation, talks about the religious dimensions of Iran's political crisis and the challenges it poses for the Islamic Republic’s cleric-run establishment.
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June 12, 2009: American Jews and Israel
"Criticism of Israel indicates engagement with Israel. American Jews should be worried when their children stop criticizing Israel," says Professor Steven Cohen, a sociologist of American Jewry on the faculty at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.
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June 5, 2009: Muslim Reaction to Obama’s Address
Tufts University international relations professor Vali Nasr and veteran Middle East correspondent Kate Seelye, now a vice president at the Middle East Institute in Washington, discuss President Obama's speech to the world's Muslims.
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Read comments and analysis by religious leaders, scholars, and others on President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world.
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May 29, 2009: Obama and the Muslim World
One thing Rep. David Price (D-NC) expects to hear in Obama's June 4 address is "a sense of humility that also has a religious undertone, that we recognize that we're fallible and that national causes are not to be identified in any unequivocal way with God's will."
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Bishop Munib Younan: Seeing God in the Other
Munib Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and one of the most prominent Palestinian Christian leaders in the region, talks about theological solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Tod Lindberg: Religion, Politics, and Foreign Policy
Political philosopher Tod Lindberg, author of "The Political Teachings of Jesus," reflects on the role of values in presidential approaches to foreign policy and how to translate ethics into policy.
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Harry Knox: Serving on the Faith-Based Council
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation's religion and faith director, Harry Knox, offers his perspective on the workings of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
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May 8, 2009: Religion and Peace in the Middle East
"I don't think any of us are under any illusions that we're going to solve the peace problem, but we also realize that you can't have peace without religious leaders," says former US ambassador Tony Hall.
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