Separate Worlds, Shared Dreams: Voices of Muslim & American Youth

Series: The World of Islam
From: A World of Possibilities
Length: 00:55:00

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Are Muslim youth as angry and alienated as the media portray them to be? Are American youth as unknowing and incurious as they're thought to be? Join us to hear how young people of Islam and the USA, from Beirut to Boston, Pittsburg to Morocco, perceive one another across the great divide that their elders have created. Guests: Marwa Abou Dayya, Faical Baamer, Alex Fortes, Anwar Ibrahim, Joseph Phillips

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Review of Separate Worlds, Shared Dreams: Voices of Muslim & American Youth

A thoughtful hour on young people communicating across an East-West cultural divide. Young people from the US and in the Middle east engage in a long term internet discussion group and share their feelings about the commonalities and differences between themselves.

Host by Mark Sommers, it's an engaging collection of expressions, that wold make a perfect noontime special on any week day, or on a Sunday afternoon.

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