• November 16, 2015 |

    Interview | The Paris Attacks and ISIS

    Dr. Hatem Bazian appeared live on KPFA radio on November 16, 2015 to discuss Paris Attacks.  

  • November 12, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    The clash of civilization: A racial discourse

    The oft-cited clash of civilization thesis promoted by right-wing politicians, religious extremists and public figures is predicated on extending and reformulating the already discredited notions of “scientific/biological racism” into new categories based on cultural, religious, and ethnic norms – nebulous and difficult to define terms, as the concept of race itself. In the clash of…

    Colonialism Politics Race/Racism
  • November 9, 2015 | AlJazeera

    The Palestinian cause and international law

    The Palestinian quest for international recognition took another major step forward when 107 nations voted to admit Palestine as a full member to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). At the meeting, the United States, Canada, Germany, Israel, and 10 other countries opposed the motion, while 52 countries, including Great Britain, abstained…

    De-Colonial Islamic Politics Palestine Politics
  • November 5, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    Trump and the Spectacle of Reality TV

    Donald Trump’s political campaign represents the logical evolution of the media age and entertainment serving as a spectacle where the line between the real and the imaginary is completely blurred. The age of reality TV and non-stop entertainment has become the dominant avenue for people to receive and share information about a wide range of…

    Politics
  • October 31, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    Al-Aqsa Mosque and Israel’s colonial bullying

    The name of Hatem ibn Abdellah ibn Saad at-Taiy is recorded in Arab history as being the most generous of the Arabs, and is often used as a basis of comparisons and associated with many proverbs. The phrase: “More generous than Hatem,” is the most commonly used maxim when a person acts generously. The actual…

    Colonialism De-Colonial Palestine Politics
  • October 22, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    Intifada or not: Occupation remains intact?

    News outlets are in overdrive, asking the question whether this is the third Intifada we are witnessing in Palestine or something else. Immediately, comparisons with the first or second Intifadas have taken center stage with a heavy focus on fear and the psychological condition of Israeli society, which is again facing “random” acts of Palestinian…

    Colonialism De-Colonial Palestine
  • October 15, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    On Muslim toleration

    In “A Letter Concerning Toleration” from exile in the Netherlands, John Locke articulated a truly liberal view concerning freedom of conscious that he hoped might help resolve Europe’s raging religious war that had killed millions. Europe’s religious conflicts and Christian sectarian wars raged in the 16th and 17th centuries with tumultuous debates centering on claims…

    Islamic Education Islamic Law Islamic Politics Islamic Thought Muslim History Race/Racism
  • October 12, 2015 | Turkey Agenda

    Palestine’s Wound

    Palestine, a gnawing wound eating away at the exposed soul and flesh of Palestinians living under occupation, is facing, yet, another orchestrated episode of Israeli military and settler’s violence. Where to begin the story in this well-designed Greek tragedy! We have multiple beginnings, detours, reverses, but for sure, no end in sight. Even if, a…

    Colonialism De-Colonial Palestine Race/Racism
  • October 5, 2015 | Turkey Agenda

    Palestine, President Abbas and Challenges in Ending Oslo!

    Palestinians are “no longer bound” by the Oslo agreement was President Mahmoud Abbas’ long awaited announcement at the United Nations General Assembly meetings underway in New York. Facing stalled and circular “peace negotiations” based on facts on the ground Israeli philosophy, massive expansion of settlements in the West Bank, mounting “price tag”, thuggish and racist…

    Colonialism De-Colonial Palestine
  • September 23, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    Ahmed’s arrest caused by bigotry and Islamophobia

    The arrest of 14-year old Ahmed Mohamed in the Independent School District in Irving, Texas, illustrates the pervasiveness and normalization of Islamophobic responses that assume guilt before innocence. In this incident, Ahmed’s school principle, Dan Cummings, informed parents in a letter that the police were called to the campus in response to a “suspicious-looking item.”…

    Colonialism Islamic Politics Islamophobia