Osmanlı Nakş-ı'bendi Hakkani Dergahı
By Janel Bladow on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 - 9:19 am
A new restaurant that serves an eclectic mix of Turkish specialities and American diner classics is bringing together a Sufi Muslim community and its rural Catskills neighbors.
“More and more we are seeing less and less prejudice,” said café manager Erdem... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 - 9:57 am
Cheesemaking Help, a blog dedicated to (surprise, surprise) the fine art of cheese and the making thereof, published a wonderful interview yesterday with a member of the Osmanli Dergah, the Sidney Sufi community that was in the news so much last year... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 - 3:58 pm
There is a truly excellent feature story in the Associated Press about Sidney today.
It's a compassionate, lengthy article by award-winning feature writer Helen O'Neill, who specializes in nuanced, well-reported portraits of towns and people struggling... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Sidney, NY Town Meeting - Nov. 4, 2010 from Haqqani OSMANLI on Vimeo.
The town of Sidney's plan to move a Sufi cemetery and the two bodies buried there splashed into the national news cycle in September. Two months later, the scandal is expanding to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 - 8:57 pm
Sidney NY Town Board Meeting - October 14 2010 from VeccVideography on Vimeo.
Local filmmaker Jessica Vecchione -- the creative force behind the award-winning documentary Bienvenidos a Fleischmanns -- has produced an extraordinary short documentary on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 - 9:55 am
Photo of the crowd at last night's meeting by Qortni Medovichova, via Facebook.
A long-awaited town board meeting was packed to the gills last night with protesters angry about Sidney's recent star turn in a national scandal over a small Muslim graveyard... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 7:56 pm
You know a local scandal has gotten big when the Associated Press is the first news outlet to report on a breaking development. This afternoon, the AP reported that the attorney for the town of Sidney has informed the embattled local Sufi center, Osmanlı... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 27, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Members of a Sufi community, Osmanlı Nakş-ı'bendi Hakkani Dergah, in Sidney Center, in Delaware County. Photo by Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani, via Flickr.
In a blockbuster of a story in the Huffingston Post today, reporter Andrew Reinbach exposes what looks... Read more
