Hi C, I, and Nontheist Friends,
In terms of Islamophobia, Orientalism, the Internet, online education and World University and School,
you'll find MIT OpenCourseWare's courses translated into Persian here - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - and here - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/persian/ - but not yet translated in Arabic, one of the main United Nations' languages WUaS plans to develop in first.
Here's the new Persian, wiki subject at WUaS with many MIT OCW courses -http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Persian_language.
And here's the new, Iran, wiki, subject page at WUaS ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Iran_(Islamic_Republic_of) ... which I sent to my friend from Iran, who's a graduate student at UC Berkeley, recently, and which will become a MIT OCW-centric university in Iran, potentially in all languages there (Wikipedia is in 285 languages, by way of comparison).
And here is the Middle East, wiki, subject page at WUaS with its main, growing links ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Middle_East#World_University_and_School_Links ... including beginning, musical ones.
What's the difference between Orientalism and Islamophobia, I wonder? More (societal) fear in the latter?
I wrote a chapter on Orientalism in the online German UNESCO World Heritage Sites' web site - "Treasures of the World" or "Schaetze der Welt" ... http://www.swr.de/schaetze-der-welt/ - suggesting that the German characterizations of these UNESCO WHS expressed a form of Orientalism (per Edward Said ... and it looks like you can read some of my chapter here ... http://books.google.com/books?id=DpYzJqxs9ncC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=German+UNESCO+world+heritage+sites+website+-+Treasures+of+the+World+schaetze+der+welt&source=bl&ots=FvNiws3W7i&sig=Iai8yUEXaQrx1u69lBfvI_Y-sLk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BbejUY24EKmliQK1vYCwDw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=German%20UNESCO%20world%20heritage%20sites%20website%20-%20Treasures%20of%20the%20World%20schaetze%20der%20welt&f=false) - as well as looking at these World Heritage Sites as nascent, online, multimedia destinations. I know less about Islamophobia.
I think online, WUaS MIT OCW-centric education, in Arabic and Persian/Farsi, for example, and even Friendly-informed, as well as NtF-informed (WUaS is Quaker-informed in that open, monthly, business meeting is in the manner of Quakers) may be a way to help think our way out of Islamophobia and Orientalism, as well as create cross-cultural understandings, through University education, ... something Friends in general may have sought to do over centuries, in one way or another. The Quaker school in Ramallah, begun in the mid-late 1800s is one good example of this.
WUaS would like to offer online, free, Creative Commons' licensed, MIT-centric university degrees - bachelor, Ph.D., Law and M.D., as well as I.B. diplomas, - beginning in English, and moving next into the 6 United Nations' languages, and especially in the Middle East, with time.
Many law schools, for example, in respective languages, under one WUaS 'umbrella' will be an important development in international law. C, have you read much in Islamic law, for example, besides the book you mention?
Nontheist Friends, how can we teach and learn about the rich culture and beauties of Islamic civilization, that allows people to move beyond Islamophobia?
With f/Friendly regards,
Scott
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