September 16, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Sep 16 2007

The founder of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a new Arab dual-language public school in Brooklyn, is hounded out of her job; the organized Jewish community in conflict over naming the Armenian genocide

Episode segments
  • Khalil Gibran Academy
    Education

    Debbie Howard runs a consulting company Guiding Change, that offers guidance on diversity and conflict resolution; she helped to draft the original proposal for the Khalil Gibran International Academy

    Mona Eldahry is the founding director of Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM), an organization that is leading support efforts for the Khalil Gibran International Academy and its founding principal, Debbie Almontaser 
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    After putting years into the development of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, an Arab dual-language public school in Brooklyn, principal Debbie Almontaser was forced to step down after the New York Post stoked up controversy over a T-shirt

  • Naming the Armenian Genocide
    Jewish
    Jennifer Siegel, staff writer for The Forward, the Jewish weekly, and author of the article "Armenian Genocide Debate Exposes Rifts at ADL"
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Abe Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, opposes a Congressional resolution to recognize as genocide the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by their Ottoman rulers--and then he's forced to change his tune