M on pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est le hockey would be an apt way to describe our identity. Whether the World Juniors, the Stanley Cup, international championships or the Olympics, our collective mood rides on the efforts of athletes who give their heart and soul to do this country proud. Christine Sinclair and the Olympic women’s soccer team followed a majestic path of true grit last…
Sheema Khan
Sheema Khan, author of Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman (TSAR Publications, 2009), is a hockey mom who played house league at McGill and Harvard universities.
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Bridging the Divide
Sheema Khan describes how a Canadian business executive has made common cause with the women of Yemen July–August 2010
As Greg Mortenson describes it in Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools, his fervent desire to build a school for the Afghan village of Korphe was about to bear fruit after much self-sacrifice. Mortenson had sold all of his worldly possessions, navigated through the complexities of village politics and secured resources for the arduous task in the rugged Afghan…
Integration Is a Two-Way Street
A valuable study of Muslims in Canada demonstrates fear and ignorance … on both sides October 2009
In the January/February 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs, Dominique Moïsi of the French Institute of International Relations wrote that contemporary world tensions were not symptomatic of a clash of civilizations, but rather a result of interdependent layers of conflict.
One such conflict, he argued, is not so much a clash between Islam and the West but rather increasing tensions between secularism and…