During this year’s holiday of Sukkot, aka the Feast of Tabernacles, or Booths, the verse proclaiming this holiday as one of inclusion for all nations, and that inclusion which happened 1000 years ago in Islamic Spain, seems especially important to remember, today. 
Remember, if we did it before, we can do it again! We go farthest fastest by working together, right?
“Of course, right!”
Libraries are one of the greatest legacies of the Convivencia (remember that cooperation, in Muslim Spain, of Jewish, Christian and Islamic scholars, that gave Europe books again?), and one of the key parts of Phase I of the Four Freedoms movement.
Action Items:
1.) Search your local public library’s online catalogue for books on La Convivencia.
(here’s a good one to start with: Read more in M. Rosa Menocal’s book, available at most public libraries!)
2.) Share them with us in the comments, here, please.
3.) Share your thoughts on what La Convivencia was, and what it might have been like to live in Al Andalus at that time,
4.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.
Dear Readers, ideas on learning, especially multiple #LanguageLearning, on-going education and empathy-building, to #EndPoverty, #EndHomelessness, #EndMoneyBail & achieve freedom for All HumanKind?
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Shira
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Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story 
Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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Sorry I missed this! Thank you so much, Ned!!
Shira
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Thanks for reminding us of that valuable lesson
We often forget that the Moslems had more learning in an enlightened period than the more backward medieval Europeans
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Indeed, we do.
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