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September 6, 2016 |
Call for Papers | Contending Epistemologies: Euro-Centrism, Knowledge Production and Islamophobia
UC Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project Call for Papers Contending Epistemologies: Euro-Centrism, Knowledge Production and Islamophobia Paris 2016 December 9, 2016 Recent events in Europe and the Muslim world point to deeper complexities that the short news cycle and security based responses are unable or are totally ill-prepared to disentangle. In the current…
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September 4, 2016 |Does Europe Have an Inquisition Problem?
Switzerland banned the construction of minarets; Spain and Italy have placed heavy restrictions on permits for building new mosques; Austria adopted a law to redefine the status of Islam and Muslims in the country; France has layered bans on the Hijab, Niqab and now Burkini; and the continent-wide massive surveillance of Muslims raises an important question: Will Europe forever have…
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August 31, 2016 |France’s Burkini Ban: the Theater of the Absurd “an Outfit Respecting Good Morals and Secularism.”
The attempt by a number of French coastal mayors to ban the burkini is a clear sign that Islamophobia has entered into the theater of the absurd. How else can we explain this new attack on Muslim women in civil society other than absurdity that is backed up by law and power? When the police…
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August 24, 2016 |الابادة الجماعية و الاسلام فوبيا في البوسنة والهرسك
التاريخ هو عبارة عن كتاب قابل للتدقيق والتعديل باستمرار و اعادة التحرير من قبل العديد من الكتاب والمصالح الوطنية الاقتصادية منها والسياسية والعرقية وبالأخص الدينية ذات التعارض مع التاريخ الوطني المعتمد. كأكاديميين، نحن مدربين على فحص التاريخ من وجهات نظر متعددة واتباع كل المصادر المتاحة قبل الوصول الى حكم قاطع في موضوع معين او قضية ما….
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August 24, 2016 |Ahmed Abu Ghosh’s Olympic Gold Medal and the Expulsion of Palestinians
Ahmed Abu Ghosh won Jordan’s first ever Olympic gold medal by winning the men’s 68-kg taekwondo competition, which is a major achievement. However, Ahmed’s victory immediately elicited Israeli claims over him, especially with the fact that the Abu Ghosh family comes from the village with the same name in Israel. Here, Ahmed was entered into…
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August 17, 2016 |
Erasure of the Human
In France, I encountered a number of refugees who had their fingerprints completely scratched over, burned or partially disfigured. One of the main distinguishing features of being a unique member of the human family is reflected in fingerprints as no two are identical. A fingerprint is a defining characteristic of every human around the world….
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August 17, 2016 |
The Age of the Perplexed!
A statement by Prophet Muhammad spoke of a future time that would cause the wise, sagacious and learned to be totally perplexed by unfolding events to an extent that they couldn’t make any sense of it. From the earliest post-prophetic period, the notion of the age of the perplexed has existed in Islamic literature with…
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August 17, 2016 |
“I am Exhausted.”
As terrorist carnage occurs daily across the world, the common response from people is, “I am exhausted.” The statement sums up the feelings of so many people across the globe as terrorism, the war on terrorism, the invasion of Iraq, Syria’s civil war, multiple and trans-generational wars in Afghanistan, Palestine, Sudan and Somalia have managed…
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July 28, 2016 |The Refugee: the Commodified Human
During a summer immersion course on immigration and refugees, we had the honor to be visited by Yousif, a Sudanese refugee “living” in Paris after a nearly four-month torturous journey. He shared his story, which started from the moment he left his home up until arriving in Paris. Yousif’s story began with him and his…
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July 21, 2016 |On Military Coups and Post-Colonialism
The failed military coup attempt in Turkey will possibly bring an end to a pernicious feature that has been around throughout the postcolonial period. Military coups and interventions are a permanent feature of the postcolonial state. While the Turkish experience with direct colonialism is non-existent, the effects of Eurocentric discourses and the shift toward Europe…
Colonialism De-Colonial Islamic Politics Politics Race/Racism
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