I woke up on Friday morning–a weekend in the Arab and Muslim world–and turned on the TV in customary fashion, to hear the news. The normal stories were being mercilessly debated to death: Iran, Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan. In a small note, running on the news bar of al-Jazeera, were the words, “American pop icon, [...]
I woke up on Friday morning–a weekend in the Arab and Muslim world–and turned on the TV in customary fashion, to hear the news. The normal stories were being mercilessly debated to death: Iran, Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan. In a small note, running on the news bar of al-Jazeera, were the words, “American pop icon, [...]