Tom Treanor is a short story writer and a film festival correspondent for the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. He was born and raised in Northern California and has a profound love for the smell of redwood trees in the summertime.
I’m in the middle of Tamim Ansary’s Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, and it’s incredibly illuminating. Ansary pretty much covers the entire history of Islam in…
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business.