Publications & Research

How Race Works Today

Michael O. Emerson
Allyn & Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology
Co-Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Rice University

ANALYSIS - November 25, 2011

It’s a riddle, really.  The United States is by many accounts post-racial.  We reassure ourselves that racial groups are no longer kept separate and unequal by our laws, customs, and personal prejudices.  And ever since the last official vestiges of racial discrimination were eschewed from our laws in the 1960s, we have indeed seen amazing changes.

 
Houston Independent School District – Working Hard to become the Best School District in the Nation

Greg Meyers
Houston Independent School District - Trustee for District VI

EVENT REPORT - December 18, 2011

Greg Meyers, HISD Trustee for District VI, enthusiastically outlined the district's new strategic direction at the Gulen Institute's Luncheon Forum.

 
Terrorism, Psychology and Psychiatry

Mohammed Ayoub
Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatrist

September 11ANALYSIS - September 5, 2011
On July 22, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in Oslo that killed eight people. He then went to Utoyah island, where the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour party held its annual summer camp, and shot and killed sixty-nine others, plunging his country into deep shock and grief.

 
HOPE AND HEALING: Stories from Northern Iraq Where Persons Inspired by Fethullah Gülen Have Been Serving

Martha Ann Kirk, Th.D., C.C.V.I.
University of the Incarnate Word, Religious Studies

Iraqi GirlRESEARCH - August 30, 2011
This research study in the summer of 2010 sought to learn if or how the Gülen-inspired institutions, that is, the fifteen schools of the Fezalar Educational Institutions and Sema Hospital, have been helping to bring stability and peace to northern Iraq since 1994. While quantitative information was gathered, the emphasis was on gathering qualitative information, such as stories about hope, forgiveness, healing, and new life.

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