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I watched an episode of a Chinese tv show called “Scissor Seven.” It’s about a boy who is picked to be a killer and trained to do so. In the beginning, I immediately noticed a scene where a boy was getting a food outside of his school from a food cart. The boy ordered a… Continue reading Chinese TV Show

I recently tried a green onion pancake from a Chinese store in Illinois and thought it was really good! It’s very similar to American food because it is flaky and packed with sodium (at least, that’s what it said on the label). I ate it with a fried egg in the middle so it looked… Continue reading Chinese Green Onion Pancakes

I looked up “China News” into Google and found the South China Morning Post, which had a story on the economy in China–specifically the rising inflation pressures and covid-19 outbreaks. The news site was in English (luckily), so it was very similar to how I get my American news, but, obviously, all the stories and… Continue reading China News 12/3

I really enjoyed learning about Islam because I was not familiar with it at all before this class. I didn’t realize it was so close to Christianity (which I grew up learning about). I thought it was so cool that people I learned about in the Bible were also in the Qur’an because it helped… Continue reading Islam/”The Cairo House” Overview

The documentary we watched for this class was very insightful. I knew it was common for Muslim women to be covered from head to toe and not show any skin, but I liked learning more about the how/why of it all–some Muslim women are comfortable showing more skin that others. It doesn’t mean they’re more… Continue reading 11/16 Notes Islamic Brotherhood, Women, and Marriage

Mohammed Ali ruled over Egypt and was the start of the royal family. I don’t know much about him, Egypt, or Islam, so everything I learned this class was new information for me. I liked learning about how Muslims were seen as in need of enlightenment, even though they didn’t because they were have already… Continue reading 11/11 Notes Revolution in Egypt and Elsewhere in the Middle East

“The Cairo House” reminds me a lot of a book I read for fun called “A Woman is No Man” because they’re both about young women from non-western cultures who live in a man’s world. Both the girls in the stories are thrown into arranged marriages, determined mostly by status and wealth and not at… Continue reading “The Cairo House” vs “A Woman is No Man”

I didn’t know that Jesus just popped into Islamic poetry/stories. I thought that was pretty cool that there’s almost like a mix of religions in those poems. Which leads into another topic we had talked about–that Sufism is engaging in other religions and appreciative of other outlooks on religion. Sufism allows you to believe what… Continue reading 11/9 Notes Sufism, Rumi’s Poetry, Layla and Majnun

Since learning about Islam, I have realized there are a lot of similarities between being Muslim and being Christian/Jewish. In regards to divorce, Mohammed frowns upon it, much like how God does in the Bible, but there is a little bit of a difference in whether or not divorce is considered a sin. Mohammed believes… Continue reading 11/4 Notes Islamic, Community, Theology, and Law

I liked learning about how Covid impacted Mosques and Muslims who wanted to pray together. It helped me better understand what a group of people different from me were going through during that hard time of not being able to see others in person. I liked how the Muslims created new ways of worship by… Continue reading 11/2 Notes The 5 Pillars