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Fundraiser To Feature Bears, Bentleys and Chance To Fight Hunger by brian slupski dailynorthshore.com
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he Cars & Stars fundraiser in Northbrook will feature Bentleys, Bears and a chance to address hunger. The Oct. 8 Northern Illinois Food Bank event is in its third year and its honorary chairman is Brian McCaskey, who also serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Bears. McCaskey said the event is a chance to have a great time, while addressing an important issue. “Most people do not realize Continued on PG 12
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OUr changing world Free from an Iranian jail, local professor looks for hope in refugee crisis
resh images of refugees fleeing war-torn countries continue to appear each day. On television. On the internet. In print. Some of the faces express hope, others fear and uncertainty. The face and lifeless body of a three-year-old, sadly, is an image that haunts. And lingers. Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian Kurdish refugee from Kobani, washed ashore in Turkey after a boat holding more than 20 people and heading to the Greek island of Kos — had capsized early this month. More than 380,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean this year in search of safety, an editorial notes in The Nation. At least 2,850 have drowned or are missing at sea. Germany expects 800,000 migrants this year. “It’s a terrible tragedy, what is unfolding,” Ahmad Sadri, a native of Iran and professor of Islamic World Studies at Lake Forest College, says. “My interest [as an academic] is the society of religions in the world. Old religions, such as Christianity and Judaism, have acclimated to the modern world. Another old religion, Islam, … it gets complicated. There is prosperity in [Muslimmajority countries] Indonesia, Turkey, Malaysia. These countries have acclimated to modernity. “Fundamentalism and auto-
cratic forms of government, in other countries, lead to isolation,” he adds. “These refugees, these migrants, are voting with their feet.” Sadri, a professor of sociology in the sociology and anthropology department at LFC since 1988, is scheduled to speak at an “Our Changing World” seminar Oct. 3 (8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.) at North Shore Senior Center in Northfield. The title of his presentation is, “Good News and Bad News from the Islamic World: Islam in Transition and Turmoil.” Tough news greeted Sadri, 61, shortly after he arrived in Tehran, Iran, in the summer of 2014. The University of Tehran graduate was interrogated for eight hours and jailed for signing a petition calling for the release of a Toronto professor, who had been detained. Fourteen others also signed it. Sadri was charged with propaganda against the state and collaborating with the enemy. The first crime carries a prison term of one year, the latter a prison term of five years. “I had just expressed myself,” Sadri says. He was released on bail, but if he were to return to Iran he would be arrested upon landing at an airport. The administration at Lake Forest College fully supported Sadri, who, in 1978, earned his PhD in sociology from Continued on PG 12
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