Donald Duck⬦ I cannot say Donald Duck is my hero.
� Armen Eloyan

That month also witnessed the quiet shuttering of a most unusual mosque, the Masjid al-Farah. Perhaps the only mosque in the world kitted out with Dan Flavin light installations, the space, a vast converted firehouse on Mercer Street, pushed the metaphysical tendencies of the early Dia Foundation to their logical limit: the Masjid al-Farah was a permanent installation in the heart of lower Manhattan, an avant-garde Sufi lodge for the ages.

… The voice belongs to Salman Kahn, who wants to pulverize every last ossified notion you�"ve ever had about education. And this whip-smart thirty-three-year-old, with three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard, might just do it. Singled out by Bill Gates as the future of education and recently awarded a two million dollar grant from Google, Khan is the founder, voice, and sole faculty member of Khan Academy, the most popular educational site on the internet. At last count some twenty-four million people have profited from its online tutorials.

Amr Khaled has great big expressive eyebrows. When he speaks, they take on a life of their own, moving up and down and sideways like a caterpillar on acid. Whether pondering the state of women in the Islamic world or the fate of the Palestinians, he is relentlessly, even frustratingly, optimistic. As the Egyptian equivalent of Dr. Phil, Oprah, and Rick Warren all rolled together, he is an army of one dreaming of the Islamic Renaissance to come, a pious poster boy, hero, and self-help coach to millions.

Is Kuwaiti social entrepreneur Naif Al-Mutawa the best dad in the world? Let's consider the evidence. He's totally busy with his day job, it's true � but his day job is dreaming up superheroes and adventures for them to have. His heroes, a team called The 99, are the stars of their own comic book � and they just teamed up with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman in new spinoff title. Meanwhile, in real life, the leader of the free world is a fan. (President Obama praised Mutawa in April during a summit on entrepreneurship.) The 99 also have their own theme park, right there in Kuwait � how cool is that? We can�"t say whether Mutawa dotes on his five sons, exactly, but they look pretty happy when they wriggle their way into his publicity photographs, which happens fairly often.

… According to the website of Equus World, a subsidiary of the dry-goods conglomerate Limex Global Industries (maker of Bimbo, Nigeria's favorite detergent), whose head is Paris-based businessman and �SCitizens of the World� financier Bassam Abdallah, Pangea is a supergroup created to �Sprove through the power and beauty of music, that despite being now separated by oceans, we are still one people.� (�SCitizens of the World� is not just a song, but a component of the grander Equus project, which aims to connect the globe through �Ssensational events� and message-driven products including limited-edition, custom-made American muscle cars, utilizing �Sthe new triangular link existing between Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood.�) Unlike �SDo They Know It's Christmas?� or �SWe Are the World� or other musical endeavors meant to succor the world's benighted, suffering populations, �SCitizens of the World� aims to purvey a vibe, not save lives. And unlike, say, the United Nations, it is completely apolitical.

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