• January 19, 2015 | Daily Sabah

    ‘What’s the matter boss, we sick?’

    The title of this piece is taken directly from Malcolm X’s speech, “The Race Problem,” which he delivered at Michigan State University in East Lansing on Jan. 23, 1963. In the speech, he drew a distinction between the terms “house negro” and “field negro” as they relate to the problem of race and the internalization…

    De-Colonial Race/Racism
  • January 18, 2015 | Turkey Agenda

    Europe, Immigration and the Post-Colonial South

    We are all in agreement that large sections in Africa, Asia and the Muslim world are in total collapse with many failed or about to fail states in these regions. Take your pick of a country to include in this category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, Nigeria, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Liberia, the Congo, and the Central…

    De-Colonial Islamic Politics Race/Racism
  • January 15, 2015 | Al Jazeera

    The freedom to take offence

    In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo murders, Ahmed Merabet’s brother Malek correctly declared: “My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two false Muslims … Islam is a religion of peace and love. As far as my brother’s death is concerned it was a waste. He was very proud of…

    Islam Islamophobia
  • January 8, 2015 | Turkey Agenda

    Charlie Hebdo, and Murder in the Name of Islam?

    The news concerning Muslims engaged in terrorism, mayhem and murder in the name of defending Islam is non-stop and point to a serious crisis that is yet to be addressed. Every day a river of blood is flowing across the world with Muslim names attached to it both victims and perpetrators alike. Is this Islam…

    De-Colonial Islamophobia Race/Racism
  • January 7, 2015 | Turkey Agenda

    “We Fight, Therefore We Are:” Zionism’s Epistemology

    Ramon’s Grosfoguel, in a seminal article, The Structure of Knowledge in Westernized Universities, provided a conceptualization of multiple genocides/epistemicides, which can and should be extended to deconstruct the Zionist settler colonial project. From its epistemic inception, Zionism’s settler colonialism was directed at the Palestinians and culminating in ethnic cleansing, destruction of villages and towns as…

    De-Colonial Palestine
  • December 26, 2014 | Turkey Agenda

    A Discourse on the Colonized Muslim Subject

    Today’s events in the Muslim world chaotic and incoherent if we fail to account for the past two hundred years of modern history and the entanglement with colonialism and then the emergence of post-colonial nation-states. Often, Muslims are instructed to let go of the past and stop complaining about colonialism and using it as an…

    De-Colonial Islam
  • December 14, 2014 | Al Jazeera

    Revisiting the British conquest of Jerusalem

    “…The Ottoman Government, in order to safeguard the religious places from ruin and destruction, has withdrawn its forces from the city and has commissioned officials to take care of the religious places like the Holy Sepulcher and the Aqsa Mosque. Hoping that your treatment will also be similar…” (Isa al-Safari, Filstin al-Arabiyah) On December 11,…

    Colonialism De-Colonial Palestine
  • December 8, 2014 | Turkey Agenda

    Tunisian Presidential Elections and Monetizing Islamophobia At The Ballot Box

    The front runner in the Tunisian upcoming presidential elections Beji Cassid Essebsi has cast himself, starting with the formation of the new party Nidaa Tounes, as the rescuer for the country. Because, in Essebsi view, “the Islamists don’t have experience being in power. They are incompetent and have been in favor of radical Islamist movements.”…

    De-Colonial Islamophobia
  • November 27, 2014 | Turkey Agenda

    On Ferguson’s Verdict, Violence and Colonial Conditioning

    The Ferguson verdict will be added as a generational marker in America’s long racial history and the inability or lack of intention to end the plague of racism. While Michael Brown’s case rightly received national and international attention many more African Americans suffer the same deaths at the hands of police daily, but remain nameless…

    De-Colonial Race/Racism
  • November 25, 2014 | Al Jazeera

    Michael Brown, racism and America’s open casket

    “He was a black skin boy. So he was born to die,” goes Bob Dylan’s song, The Death of Emmett Till. The lyrics are as timely today as when they were first written and performed because “black skin” remains a threat and the cause of death of far too many in the United States and…

    Race/Racism