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January 31, 2014 | Al JazeeraOn constitutions, Sharia and Muslim political thought
In the Arab Spring’s aftermath, and the catastrophic divisions and violence in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia – not to forget ongoing debates in almost every Muslim majority country concerning citizenship, rights, responsibilities of citizens and the constitutional contestations in the modern nation state – Muslim political parties across the region are facing textual, interpretational and…
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December 4, 2013 | Al JazeeraWhy was Arafat killed?
On November 7, Raanan Gissin commented on the instructions given by the then PM Ariel Sharon in 2002, to the effect that “everything [must] be done to ensure that Arafat… was not killed by our soldiers,” the statement is correct but also misleading as to Israel’s responsibility for Arafat’s death. The Swiss team has concluded…
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October 31, 2013 | Al JazeeraThe souls of Muslim folk
In his book The Souls of Black Folk, a powerful analysis of racism’s effects on African Americans and a critique of US society, W E B Du Bois theorised on the concept of “double consciousness”: the self-measuring and regulating mechanism that causes African Americans to “look at one’s self through the eyes of others”, denying…
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September 15, 2013 | Al JazeeraReligious authority, state power and revolutions
Current events in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia – and before that in Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey – point to a great struggle between religious authorities and state powers. At play are various claimants to religious authority; states in pre- and post-colonial and pre- and post-nationalist periods; and the role of religious authorities in existing…
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August 20, 2013 | Al JazeeraEgypt, the ‘war on terrorism’ and Islamophobia
In an interview with Der Speigel , Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy offered his German audience a history “lesson” reminding them of “their experiences with a democratically elected politician who then behaved in an undemocratic manner”, thus asserting that the removal of Morsi is in reality a preemptive action undertaken to protect democracy itself. Fahmy…
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Muslims – Enemies of the State: The New Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)
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Virtual Internment: Arabs, Muslims, Asians and the War on Terrorism
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Al-Quds or Jerusalem – What’s in a Name?
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