sufi center
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 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 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
