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July 13, 2016 |Confronting Race in America!
It was an increasingly a normal week in America’s violence-riddled streets and cities. The response and solidarity expressed after the murder of the officers by Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old African-American former Army reservist, was appropriate but also incomplete. We are experiencing a profound entrenchment of racial attitudes and a collapse of the civil rights pact…
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July 7, 2016 |Islamophobia: Israel’s Last Frontier to Rescue its Image!
With Israel’s loss of international public standing due to its never-ending occupation and violence against the Palestinians, Israel’s spokespeople and operatives in the U.S. and Europe are jumping heads-over-heels into Islamophobia to reverse the trend. At present, Israel’s propaganda machine is so intensely Islamophobic and constantly working to demonize Palestinians by resorting to every orientalist…
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June 29, 2016 |Bosnian Genocide and Islamophobia: Marking and Unmarking History
History is an open-ended book, constantly edited and re-edited by multiple authors and divergent interests. As academics, we are trained to examine history from multiple vantage points and pursue all available sources before a conclusive judgement is reached on a given topic or issue. In this sense, history presents the ultimate challenge since the engagement…
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June 26, 2016 |‘Confronting Fear’ and Taking Stock of Islamophobia in the US
“Armed anti-Muslim demonstrations” and “Muslim-Free Business” were the two new phenomena documented in a report, “Confronting Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States,” released to the public jointly by the Council on American Islamic Relations and the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender’s Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project. The most prominent armed…
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June 20, 2016 |El-Sissi: Israel’s Man in Cairo
“El-Sissi leading a Churchillian fight against Hamas,” was The Times of Israel front-page headlines of March 1, 2015, which is an accurate and on point assessment of the declaration of war against the Gaza enclave and its current leadership, and illustrative of the changes under way in Egypt since the 2013 coup. In the article,…
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June 16, 2016 |Islam is Responsible Mantra
The blame Islam mantra, a favorite pastime for the media and political talking heads, got a new lease on life after the horrific attack at the Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida. Immediately after news of the attack spread, media talking heads and political pundits began to pontificate on Islam’s supposed responsibility and the homophobic nature…
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June 9, 2016 |Remembering Muhammad Ali: “Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee.”
Oct. 29, 1974: Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman; “The Rumble in the Jungle” boxing match was my distant connection to the champ, the greatest. The match was a much-awaited event for the neighborhood and almost everyone crammed into the few houses that had a TV set to watch the fight. Every household had 40 or…
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June 2, 2016 |Ramadan: A De-Colonial Centering Moment
The month of Ramadan is approaching and with it a deliberate shift occurs in the daily life and practice of every Muslim. Islamic sources offer extensive commentaries on the divine wisdom behind the month of Ramadan. Discussions abound on the numerous benefits in this world and the hereafter for those observing the fast, as well…
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May 31, 2016 | Anadolu AgencyOrientalism, Palestine and Covering Islam
Three of Edward Said’s books are as timely today as the day they were published almost 40 years ago: Orientalism (1978), The Question of Palestine (1979), and Covering Islam (1981). The three constitute Said’s trilogy that focused on literary and artistic representation in the service of empire, colonial dispossession, and the media shaping and reproducing…
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May 27, 2016 |النكبة: رواية حكاية الفلسطينيين ”الغير الموجودين” في التاريخ!
كنت ولا زلت في دراساتي الاكاديمية والنشاط السياسي قائم بجد على مشروع كتابة مستمرة تعتزم تسليط الضوء على الروايات الفلسطينية منذ عام 1948 وحتى الوقت الحاضر. رواية الحرمان من فلسطين، الوطن المستعمر الجريح الذي ما زال ينزف شلالا من الدماء، تمس كل عائلة فلسطينية بما فيها عائلتي. خلال نكبة 1948 وفترة الحرب، استشهد اثنين من…
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