Eboo Patel: Recipient of Hofstra University’s 2012 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize

www.islamicate.com/2012/04/nyc-event-eboo-patel-at-hofstra-university-wed-apr-18-2012.html

TREP LIFE Episode 7 – Featuring Eboo Patel

After organizing interfaith movements in South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka, social entrepreneur Eboo Patel founded Interfaith Youth Core in 2002 with a mission to make interfaith cooperation a social norm. An Ashoka Fellow, Rhodes Scholar, TED Speaker, and White House policy advisor, Eboo has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, and NPR, and writes for the Huffington Post, Washington Post, and USA Today.

http://www.treppingout.com/episodes/2011/12/14/trep-life-episode-7-featuring-eboo-patel.html

Eboo Patel: My Take: Muslims deepened their American roots after 9/11 – CNN Belief Blog

By Eboo Patel, Special to CNN

In the early years of Islam, when the Muslim community was small and frequently under attack, the Prophet Mohammed sent a delegation of recent converts from the city of Mecca to the kingdom of Abyssinia. The Abyssinian king was a Christian and when he asked the Muslims about the faith they followed, one of the Muslims recited the Quran:

She said, “How shall I have a son whom no mortal has touched, either have I been unchaste?”

He said: “‘Even so my Lord has said; ‘Easy is that for Me; and that We may appoint him a sign unto men and a mercy from Us, it is a thing decreed.’”

These lines are about Mary, mother of Jesus. They show how Muslims revere her and that they believe that Mary was a virgin when she bore Jesus, just as Christians do.

More: My Take: Muslims deepened their American roots after 9/11 – CNN Belief Blog – CNN.com Blogs.

Eboo Patel is a man on a mission—a really big mission | Impact – College of DuPage

Patel leads the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit organization he founded in 2002 as a way to connect young people of all faiths through community service and, in a big way, build cooperation in a world often divided by religion.

“There are a lot of people who believe we are better apart, whether that’s Muslims and Christians or blacks and whites or Americans and Arabs,” he said. “I believe we are better together. In a variety of ways, I make that idea reality.”

That idea has inspired the Rhodes Scholar and former COD student to take many bold steps in a career even he admits can be hard to wrap your head around.

More: impact: your community college.
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Eboo Patel: Effort Fosters Tolerance Among Religions – NYTimes.com

Mr. Patel started the Youth Core in 2002 with a Jewish friend, a $35,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and one full-time paid staff member, April Mendez, an evangelical Christian who still works with the organization as vice president for leadership.

Mr. Patel’s parents were Indian immigrants from the Ismaili Shiite sect (led by the imam Aga Khan IV), which is known for its philanthropic work. But Mr. Patel spent his days at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and afterward running away from his own roots, searching for spiritual identity and purpose.

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN – Published: June 13, 2011

CHICAGO — For a guy who is only 35 and lives in a walk-up apartment, Eboo Patel has already racked up some impressive accomplishments.

Read at the source: http://www.nytimes.com

Luther College hosting 23rd annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum: Eboo Patel to present keynote address

Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and peace activist Eboo Patel to present keynote addresses

Luther College is hosting the 23rd annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, a conference featuring presentations by Nobel Peace Prize laureates and other national and international leaders.

The forum is the Norwegian Nobel Institute’s only such program or academic affiliation outside Norway.

The theme of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Forum is “Striving for Peace: Courage to Act,” and will focus on the importance of courageous action in the work of peacemaking.

More: Luther College hosting 23rd annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum – Decorah Newspapers – Decorah, IA.

Eboo Patel: Compassion in Muslim traditions

Eboo Patel of Interfaith Youth Core, talks about compassion in Muslim traditions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmTw0Hll-mI

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Eboo Patel: Have experiences of failure helped to shape your calling? | What’s Your Calling?

Founder & President, Interfaith Youth Core – Eboo Patel shares an experience of failure from his high school days, explaining how it motivates him to promote interfaith cooperation today. Named by US News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009, Eboo is the Founder & President of Interfaith Youth Core.

http://whatsyourcalling.org/campaign/have-experiences-of-failure-helped-to-shape-your-calling

Eboo Patel to present at Nobel Peace Prize Forum

Jan. 12, 2011

Luther College will host the 23rd annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum—a conference featuring presentations by Nobel Peace Prize laureates and other national and international leaders—March 4-5. The forum is the Norwegian Nobel Institute’s only such program or academic affiliation outside Norway.

The theme of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Forum is “Striving for Peace: Courage to Act”; the forum will focus on the importance of courageous action in the work of peacemaking.

via Headlines: Headlines Archive: Luther to host Nobel Peace Prize Forum on March 4-5.

Transforming values into reality — A conversation with Eboo Patel (Part 2)

Continues from Part 1:

TheIsmaili: Tell us why you established the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) and what your vision is for it over the next 5 to 10 years.

EP: We are creating a global interfaith youth movement by building understanding among people from different faith traditions and inspiring them to serve together for the common good. One day, I hope this leads to a world characterised by religious pluralism, where relations between individuals and groups are based on equal dignity and mutual respect. In the next 5 to 10 years, we hope to train scores of young leaders to promote religious cooperation on their campuses and in their communities, and make interfaith cooperation a public issue that inspires people to action.

For example, service is a common value among the world’s faith traditions. Whether you are Jewish, Catholic or Hindu, you are taught certain values. These values can be a starting point for religiously diverse communities to come together and create common action for the common good. Serving together builds bridges between different faiths, leading to greater understanding and respect.

More: http://www.theismaili.org/cms/938/Transforming-values-into-reality–A-conversation-with-Eboo-Patel-Part2

The shared value of religious pluralism — A conversation with Eboo Patel – Part 1

Eboo Patel is the Founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Youth Core, an organisation that promotes mutual respect and pluralism among young people from different religious traditions. The 34-year-old Rhodes scholar also advises United States President Barack Obama, who appointed him a member of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in February 2009.

TheIsmaili.org spoke with Patel to gain a better understanding of the work that he does and the vision that he espouses.

In the first of this two-part series, Eboo Patel explains his motivations for working towards religious pluralism. Video excerpts of a talk that he delivered at The Institute of Ismaili Studies in December 2009 accompany the interview.

Interview with video at the source: The Ismaili: The shared value of religious pluralism — A conversation with Eboo Patel (Part 1).

2010 Interfaith Understanding Conference, with Eboo Patel

A groundbreaking moment in the global interfaith movement, 2010 Interfaith Understanding Conference combines the experience and wisdom of one generation with the vitality and hope of the next.

http://interfaith2010.naz.edu/speakers/

Eboo Patel: An Obama Faith Adviser Preaches Tolerance To Youth

December 12, 2009 from WBEZ

It’s likely that Eboo Patel is a name you haven’t heard before. He teaches young people to appreciate religious diversity and pass it on. He’s the founder of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core and one of President Obama’s advisers on faith. His work just landed him the prestigious Louisville Grawemeyer Award.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121374147

Live Event with Eboo Patel

TheIsmaili.org, in conjunction with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, will host a live webcast by Eboo Patel, founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith youth movement. The event will take place on Monday, 14 December 2009 at 15:30 GMT (London time), and will be broadcast at www.theismaili.org/live.

http://www.theismaili.org/cms/915/Live-Event-Eboo-Patel

Eboo Patel wins Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Efforts to bridge religious divide among youths earns him Grawemeyer award

– excerpts –

For his efforts to shift that balance — by building an international organization that enables young people to work together across religious lines — Patel has received the 2010 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
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“I am a testament to that dynamic (showing that) encounters with people from other religions serve in large part to strengthen one’s own faith,” Patel said. So too did the quiet example of the humanitarian work of his father, grandmother and the leader of his Ismaili branch of Shiite Islam.
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“I view the Grawemeyer Award as a recognition of the work the movement has done thus far, but really about the promise of the future of building a world where interfaith cooperation is the norm,” he said.

Read at http://www.courier-journal.com/article/
http://grawemeyer.org/news-updates/

Eboo Patel will be speaking at the U.S. Embassy in London

Title: Interfaith Leadership in a Religiously Diverse World
By Eboo Patel
14 December 2009 – 6pm – 7:30pm
Friends House, Large Hall
173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ

Eboo Patel is the founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith youth movement. He was recently appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, where he is working to realize the President’s priority of interfaith cooperation. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/culture/index.html
http://www.usembassy.org.uk/americanservices/

Eboo Patel on Chicago Tonight

October 22, 2009

Eboo Patel: America’s Best Leaders 2009

U.S. News & World Reports selects Eboo Patel as one of America’s Best Leaders for 2009

http://www.usnews.com/listings/best-leaders/15-eboo-patel
http://www.usnews.com/sections/news/best-leaders/index.html

One of America’s Best leaders for promoting interfaith cooperation to young people

Eboo Patel: Obama Faith Adviser Preaches Religious Tolerance
By Bill George – Posted October 22, 2009

Eboo Patel, founder of a national movement promoting interfaith religious cooperation and one of President Barack Obama’s advisers on faith, is tackling what he considers the “color line” of the 21st century: the faith line. While Patel’s soft-spoken charm may hide his Rhodes scholar intellect, there is nothing understated about his strikingly ambitious vision for global religious pluralism.

Patel’s goal is to make interfaith cooperation a social norm within just one generation.

“Women’s rights are a social norm today,” he says. “Everyone in America should challenge religious prejudice just like we challenge racial and gender prejudice.”

Read at the source … http://www.usnews.com/articles/
Bill George, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is author of 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis.

Eboo Patel speaks at Saint Mary’s College of California

Eboo Patel, Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, speaks about finding common ground between different religions at Saint Mary’s.

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Eboo Patel promotes pluralism at opening convocation of Luther College

September 10, 2009 – First years, faculty and many other members of the Luther community gathered enthusiastically on Sept. 3 at the opening convocation to hear Dr. Eboo Patel.

Patel is author of the summer Paideia reading, “Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation.” He is also the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core of Chicago.

In his convocation address, he re-emphasized his belief in religious pluralism and interfaith leadership, underlining the need for interfaith action at Luther College and calling on students to become social entrepreneurs who can build a society where people from different backgrounds live in equality.

“I implore you to be an interfaith leader,” Patel said. “I implore you to not forfeit the territory to Osama Bin Laden’s world.”

He urged the Luther community to choose religious pluralism over totalitarianism. The reason for this is that religious extremism can be a consequence of totalitarianism.

Read at the source: http://lutherchips.com

Eboo Patel & IFYC to receive Freedom of Worship Medal from Roosevelt Institute

The Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute is pleased to announce a Dinner & Awards Ceremony honoring the

2009 Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal Recipients

Eboo Patel & the Interfaith Youth Core
Freedom of Worship Medal

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medals

On January 6, 1941, in one of the most important speeches of the 20th century, President Roosevelt proclaimed four freedoms essential to any flourishing democracy: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

Each year, a single individual is selected for the FDR Four Freedoms Award which honors a lifetime of distinguished service and an unwavering commitment to these freedoms. In addition, each year, a Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal representing each of these values is presented to an individual whose life and work embody that ideal.

http://feri.publishpath.com/fourfreedoms

Obama Speaking to the Whole World – By Eboo Patel

Via Newsweek’s OnFaith blog

President Obama is making his long-awaited speech to the Muslim world tomorrow morning in Cairo. Everyone is talking about what message he should send to the Muslim world. But the truth is, it isn’t just citizens of Muslim majority countries that will be tuning in.

Obama will be addressing the 930 million Hindus in India, and the 5 million Jews in Israel, and the 38 million Catholics in Spain, and the 500,000 Muslims in his own city of Chicago.

Tomorrow, Obama does more than discuss how the United States will relate to the Muslim world. He sets the precedent for how diverse peoples and nations should interact in the 21st century. I have no doubt that Cairo was chosen as the stage for this message because of its history of religious pluralism, a history it shares with America and with Islam.

Take for instance the Fatimid dynasty, which ruled from Cairo from the 10th to the 12th century. This dynasty was known for its pluralistic nature of rule, demonstrating religious tolerance for other sects of Islam, Jews, and Coptic and Maltese Christians. In 975, the Fatimid dynasty, ruled by Shi’a Muslims, also established what is now widely considered the global center of Sunni Islamic scholarship – the famous Al-Azhar University.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2009/06/obama_in_cairo.html

Eboo Patel (US) and Salimah Y. Ebrahim (Canada) on World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders 2009 list

230 leaders from business, government, academia, media, non-profit organizations and arts chosen from around the world

Geneva, Switzerland, 25 February 2009 – The World Economic Forum has announced the Young Global Leaders (YGL) 2009. The honour, bestowed each year by the Forum, recognizes and acknowledges between 200 and 300 outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.

http://www.weforum.org/en/media/Latest%20Press%20Releases/PR_YGL2009

Eboo Patel (USA)
Salimah Ebrahim (Canada)

List – http://www.weforum.org/docs/ygl/YGL_Honorees_2009.pdf

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Who is your favorite religious hero?
I would say first and foremost its the Prophet Mohammad. I would say, because I am a Muslim from the Ismaili tradition and we have an Imam who we believe is the rightful interpreter of the Qu’ran on earth, I would say that the Aga Khan is that person, who is my key religious hero.

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