The following is a greeting sent by the faculty, students and staff at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar to President David Skorton on the occasion of his inauguration. Greetings -- or assalamu ...

I have to admit that Barack Obama's last speech to the Muslim world—by telewhatever to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar—did contain one subtle reproach to the umma after a year of fawning.

I have been in many mosques, including four of the most “amazing mosques from around the world.” Then there’s the retired imperial mosque of Hagia Sophiain Istanbul — which made a decent Christian ...