“Eat Pray Love’s Spiritual Tourism”
In The Daily Beast, Indian author Gita Mehta wrote about Eat Pray Love and the attractions and perils for Westerners of “spiritual tourism” in India.
Category: Arts
“2.3 Million Hindu Americans + 1 Hindu American Sweetheart”
Read an essay at the website Patheos about Julia Roberts and the appeal of Hinduism and Eastern religions throughout American history. The article is by Suhag Shukla, co-founder of the Hindu American Foundation.
Image Books
Image Books, a division of Random House, has published many of Pope Benedict XVI’s English-language books, including his most recent. In addition, Image published the Spanish-language edition of The Infancy Narratives in the United States in February 2013.
“Report: LGBT youth experience high rates of cyberbullying”
July 11, 2013, Progress Illinois article about a report which found that LGBT youth face higher levels of cyberbullying than straight youth.
“LGBT homeless youth documented in ‘Queers in Exile’ at the Leslie Lohman Museum”
July 16, 2013 The Huffington Post article about an exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York detailing the street stories of LGTBQ people since 1969.
“Amy Winehouse obituary”
Singer Amy Winehouse died unexpectedly on July 23, 2011, at age 27. Read an obituary from The Guardian.
“Public Reaction to Whitney Houston’s Death”
Read a Feb. 11, 2012, roundup of reactions to Whitney Houston’s death. It is posted by News One.
“Whitney Houston obituary”
Whitney Houston died unexpectedly on February 11, 2012. Read an obituary from The Guardian.
Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf is a poet and an associate professor of literature at the University of Arkansas. She writes about gender issues and Arab-American women.