Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
Oh. My. I would really love to know the story of how that website came to be.
ReplyDeleteglad you asked because i actually didn't know for sure.
ReplyDeletehere's an interview with one of the creators:
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/06/04/jonah_peretti_director_of_rd_at_eyebeam.php
It was Jonah Peretti who is associated with something called Contagious Media Project and his sister Chelsea who is a stand-up comedian.
http://www.contagiousmedia.org/