[Danielle Salzberg] is a strong leader and an excellent educator who knows what it takes to help our students succeed," said Chancellor [Joel I. Klein]. "Working with the committed and talented staff at Khalil Gibran, I am confident that Danielle will help ensure that students receive the top-notch education they need and deserve. Danielle is experienced with new schools and throughout her career she has been focused on providing rigorous, college preparatory instruction to New York City students. With her leadership and the commitment renewed today by teachers and staff, Khalil Gibran will add a new, important option for our students who are interested in a rigorous academic program with an international and Arabic language theme.
In August, a story in the New York Post suggested [Debbie Almontaser] sided with a Muslim girls' group distributing T-shirts that read "Intifada NYC. In tearful testimony this week, Almontaser said she was trying to make a teaching point about the meaning of intifada when she explained to the reporter that its root translation was "shaking off oppression." She didn't talk about T-shirts," said Almontaser's lawyer, Alan Levine, quoted in the Daily News story.
Almontaser, the founding principal of the Arabic language themed Khalil Gibran International Academy in New York, named after the Christian Arab poet Khalil Gibran, was fired in 2007 due to public outrage after she tried to explain that the word "intifada" does not mean "terrorism.
For Syracuse Stage's current production, director Peter Amster's useful program notes tell where he's taking us. He wants to "increase its footprint and still retain its intimacy." This is a bigger, classier-looking, better-costumed Fantasticks than we're used to seeing, yet paradoxically-in a show that loves paradox-it is also more astringent and lighter. Amster inserts more than a dozen innovations in the staging to signal to us how much he's been thinking about renewal. For starters there's an allusion to René Magritte in the bowler hat El Gallo wears at his entrance. The "rape" routine is retained, but much emphasis is given to the notion of abduction instead of sexual exploitation. Mortimer is still the comic sidekick in the hired theatrical troupe, but now he's a pirate with a par...
... lesser hands this sounds like a steal from Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, but it doesn't come across a...
Christ-Mass is a time when the inhabitants of the earth should share and give instructions to their children about humane qualities that will enable them to become the "angels" on earth. In this column today, I would like to dwell on the many folks who have contributed toward children's well-being. In the gospel of Matthew 19:13, it states: "Little children were brought for Jesus to lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples scolded those who brought them. 'Don't bother him,' they said. But Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and don't prevent them. For of such is the kingdom of heaven.' And he put his hands on their heads and blessed them before he left. Khalil Gibran: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itsel...
Nationally, Muslim organizations are taking notice of what appears to be a surge in violence directed towards Muslims and their institutions. The Tampa office of the CAIR-Tampa reported that arsonists torched a Muslim family's home there last month. Earlier this month, unknown New York's right-wing media and anti-Arab activists had a field day after Ms. [Debbie Almontaser] failed to condemn a t-shirt with the phrase "Intifada NYC." The shirts are put out by a group called Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media, which has no formal relationship with the school. Ms. Almontaser, who came to the U.S. from Yemen when she was three years old, helped design and plan the Khalil Gibran school. With instruction based on a standard curriculum in Arabic each day and a focus on international studie...
The "principal" was educator Debbie Almontaser, who is Muslim. The "school" was the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a middle school that was designated as New York's first Arabic public school. And Almontaser, it turned out, had no ties to the T-shirt "activists," Arab Women Active In The Arts And Media (AWAAM). She merely sits on the board of the Saba Association of American Yemenis, which provides AWAAM free office space. Four days later, after a public scolding from United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten ("The word 'intifada,'" Weingarten told the New York Times, was "something that ought to be denounced, not explained away"), the Post was able to report, " 'Intifada' Principal Resigns.
EEOC: Debbie Almontaser discriminated against 'on account of her race, religion and national origin' NEW YORK, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today welcomed a determination by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that city officials discriminated against Debbie Almontaser "on account of her race, religion and national origin" by removing her as interim principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in 2007 and disqualifying her for the permanent position as principal of that Arabic language school.
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