#STEPHEN SCHWARTZ SAN FRANCISCO SERIES#

Intellectuals and Assassins: Writings at the End of Soviet Communism.From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind.A Strange Silence: The Emergence of Democracy in Nicaragua.New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988. Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M (with Victor Alba). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1986. Brotherhood of the Sea: A History of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific.A Sleepwalker's Guide to San Francisco: Poems from Three Lustra, 1966–1981.Published works External videoīooknotes interview with Schwartz on The Two Faces of Islam, February 2, 2003, C-SPAN She came in fourth, with 1,374 votes (4.82 percent of the vote). In 2020, under the name Stephen (Lulu) Schwartz, Schwartz ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in District 3. In 2017, Schwartz came out as a transgender woman. The center is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., with Schwartz as executive director. On March 25, 2005, Schwartz launched the Center for Islamic Pluralism. Austin for weak and polemical writing and for being 'decidedly biased in favour of the Albanian community in Kosovo', who concluded that 'When he is attempting to be an historian, Schwartz is at his worst'. While in Bosnia, she published the pro-Albanian book ' Kosovo: Background to a War'. In 1999, Schwartz left the Chronicle, and moved to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she lived for the next 18 months.

Īt the end of 1997, she converted to Islam. Merry for being tendentiously biased and highly inaccurate. The article was criticized by journalist Robert W. During the NATO bombing of Serbia, Schwartz published a piece in the Chronicle accusing the Serbs of countless crimes while absolving the Albanians and the KLA of all responsibility and brushing all Serb arguments as mere propaganda. She was a member of the local union at the Chronicle, a branch of the Newspaper Guild. In the 1990s, Schwartz spent a decade as a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. press representative for a Contra leader.

#STEPHEN SCHWARTZ SAN FRANCISCO SERIES#

The San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote of Schwartz in 1989: 'As he himself readily admits, Schwartz has made a lot of enemies over the years as he performed a series of dizzying ideological leaps: from the Industrial Workers of the World to meeting with Oliver North and the Outreach Group on Central America in the basement of the White House, from minuscule Trotskyist sects meeting in North Beach cafes to serving as a U.S. With others, she founded a small semi-Trotskyist group FOCUS.

Labor activism and literary career Īfter college, Schwartz became a member of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. She attended Lowell High School and she became affiliated with Leninist communism until 1984. The family moved to San Francisco when she was young, where her father Horace became a literary agent. She was baptized in the Presbyterian church as an infant. Schwartz later described both of her parents as 'radical leftists and quite antireligious', her father a ' fellow traveller', her mother a member of the Communist Party. Her mother, the daughter of a Protestant minister, was a career social services worker. Schwartz was born in Columbus, Ohio to Horace Schwartz, a Jewish independent bookseller. Schwartz's works have also been a major influence on neo-con factions that favour the severing of Saudi Arabia-US relations and lobby US foreign policy officials to take a hostile stance against the Saudi government. Schwartz has also condemned the Iranian government, asserting that American academia is being threatened by the infiltration of pro- Khomeinist state agents of Iran. Schwartz has been strongly critical of the AKP government in Turkey, portraying it as a hostile pan-Islamist threat following the Gaza flotilla raid incident in 2010. Alongside fellow neo-conservative writer Daniel Pipes, Schwartz has been a major critic of Islamism and has depicted Islamists as the new ideological nemesis of the West after the fall of Nazi Germany and Soviet Union. Schwartz's criticism of Islamic fundamentalism, especially the Wahhabi movement within Sunni Islam, has attracted controversy. Schwartz was a key figure in the neo-conservative movement that held considerable influence in the administration of George W. She has been an adherent of the Hanafi school of Islam since 1997. In 2011–2012 she was a member of Folks Magazine's Editorial Board.

She is the founder and executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based Center for Islamic Pluralism. Schwartz worked as a senior policy consultant and held the role of director of 'Islam and Democracy Project' at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a neo-conservative think-tank based in Washington, D.C. She has been published in a variety of media, including The Wall Street Journal. Lulu Schwartz (born Stephen Schwartz, September 9, 1948) is an American Sufi journalist, columnist, and author.

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