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Haroon Moghul is a fellow at the New America Foundation and Fordham Law School, where he focuses on national security and emerging geopolitical trends. A doctoral candidate at Columbia University, he is Associate Editor for Religion Dispatches and author of The Order of Light.
The kinds of sacred spaces we worked for are not just possible; they exist. On the other side of the planet. Under occupation.
The streets of Istanbul are alive with democratic politics—not dramatic upheaval.
Whereas Christians know Jesus as the son of God, Muslims know him simply as the son of Mary.
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