As our world wakes up to the width and breadth of our cross-cultural differences, and as those cultures mix more and more in the coming years, are our differences going to tear us apart, or make us better? And will religion play a positive or a negative role? Join the Optimistic Muslim as he talks [...]
The Optimistic Muslim – Yemen: Place of Hope, or Newest Middle East Hotspot?
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011Yemen, the only pure republican democracy in the Middle East, is also the poorest, most trouble-stricken country on the planet. And like many other Arab States it too is sinking into armed rebellion. Running out of water and oil, and with al-Qaeda lurking in the backcountry, is it running out of time as well? Join [...]
CBC radio
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009by Donna Kennedy-Glans Canada’s foreign policy is all about how we deal with “The Other.” How do Canadians choose to relate to “Other Nations,” “Other Worldviews,” “Other Faiths?” There are, essentially, three ways to deal with “The Other,” suggests well-known journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski in his book by the same title: We can attempt to assimilate [...]