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August 3, 2017 |Turkey’s Failed Coup and Post-Colonial Custodianship!
The 2016 failed military coup attempt in Turkey is paradigmatic of the post-colonial world system whereby internal political processes are structured to maintain and reproduce external interventions and dependencies. Clearly, the attempted coup in Turkey was not the first, as the short history of the Turkish Republic aptly demonstrates. Yet, the more critical question to…
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July 31, 2017 |
De Grenade à Guantanamo : La torture du sujet musulman
Traduction : Caro Moop pour Bruxelles Panthères Alors que j’enseignais pour un cours d’été sur la Pensée Musulmane Décoloniale à Grenade, l’Espagne m’a amenée de nouveau au contact de l’histoire et des conséquences de l’Inquisition, et de l’expulsion des Musulmans et des Juifs de 1492 et après. Particulièrement, une visite au musée de l’Inquisition de Grenade, et…
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July 20, 2017 |1492 Expulsion, Inquisition, Balfour Declaration and the European Question!
The combination of the 1492 Expulsion and Inquisition of Muslims and Jews may seem out of place at a first glance when the Balfour Declaration is discussed and added to the list. For sure, all these three are monumental events, but while in the case of the Expulsion and Inquisition the consequences were immediate and…
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July 11, 2017 |From Granada to Guantanamo: The Torturing of the Muslim Subject
Teaching a summer course on Muslim Decolonial Thought in Granada, Spain brought me again into contact with the history and consequences of the Inquisition and the Muslim and Jewish expulsion in 1492 and afterward. More to the point, a visit to the Inquisition Museum in Granada and the Torture Museum in Cordoba raised a series…
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June 23, 2017 |The Ottomans and the Loss of Jerusalem
As we commemorate the anniversary of WWI and the Balfour Declaration, it is important to reflect on Ottoman history and their relationship to Jerusalem. The Ottomans represented the last cohesive Islamic political system to exercise unfettered governance over Jerusalem, and it was during their collapse that Palestine became occupied first by the British and then…
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June 9, 2017 |Commemoration: A Collective Narration of Palestine
On June 5, 1967, Palestinians around the world marked the 50th anniversary of Naksah, which is commonly known as the Six Day War. Occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights were the immediate outcome of the war but the real impact is the total erasure of Palestine from the global map. In…
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May 28, 2017 |Ramadan: A Time of Renewal and Reducing Our Carbon Footprint!
Attaining “Taqwa” is the purpose given in the Qur’an for fasting the month of Ramadan. The Arabic term “Taqwa” or the root basis of it, is very difficult to translate into a single word in English but among the possibilities are: Protection, Shield, Fear of God and Consciousness of God. In this essay, I will…
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May 16, 2017 |Refugees and Education: The Key to Sustainable Development!
In the 1980s while I was an undergraduate student at San Francisco State University, I had the opportunity to meet and talk to refugees from El Salvador, Columbia and Nicaragua, who were part of the campus community. At the time, the civil wars and Cold War proxy regional conflicts had led many civilians to flee…
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May 3, 2017 |Is Balancing Freedom of Expression and Public Interest Possible?
The current debate engulfing the University of California at Berkeley, the United States and the world as a whole is not unique or new, and it is as old as the human experience itself. Certainly, free speech and Berkeley will forever be connected. The 1960s’ Free Speech Movement was born on campus, and has shaped…
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April 21, 2017 |Kashmir: The Forgotten Cause!
The image of Farooq Ahmad Dar, a Kashmiri shawl weaver, bound as a human shield on the bumper of an Indian military jeep is an atrocious display of an army that has become well-accustomed to human rights violations. On April 9, Mr. Dar was detained for no cause whatsoever while on his way to a…
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