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November 25, 2017 | Daily Sabah
Saudi Arabia and Financing Trump’s Job Creation Agenda!
The recent developments in Saudi Arabia are alarming and point, on the one hand, to a serious break in the consensus of the ruling family and, on the other, to the rapid movement towards another major regional war. A succession crisis in the royal family was only a matter of time after death or old…
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November 2, 2017 |
The Balfour Declaration: The UK Government Must Apologize to the Palestinians!
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of Balfour Declaration, Palestinians under occupation and in the diaspora are due an unequivocal apology from the British government. However, on October 29, 2017, the current Tory Government Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson struck in The Telegraph a celebratory note calling the Balfour Declaration an “incontestable moral goal: to…
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October 31, 2017 |
Disenfranchising the Palestinians
Imperial Britain Gave Palestine to the Zionists When It Was Still Part of the Ottoman Empire. On Nov. 2, 2017, Palestinians mark the hundred-year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a letter from British foreign secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild that committed Britain to the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine….
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October 17, 2017 |
Envisioning an Islamic Economic Union!
What are the possibilities of an Islamic Economic Union that can harness the strength and market competitive advantage of a diverse set of countries that are endowed with enormous resources and highly talented populations? The basis for forming such a market is present and the conditions are optimal to achieve it in a period of…
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October 2, 2017 |
Humanizing the human is dehumanizing! Preforming Muslimness
The proclivity of governments and civil society institutions across the globe to engage the Muslim subject has created a set of discourses that seek to humanize the Muslim in the face of Islamophobia and rising tide of bigotry. While the discourses were produced by diverse forces and interests, the running thread is nevertheless rooted in…
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September 5, 2017 |
When Racism Disrupts the “Normal” and “Peaceful” America!
America’s entanglement with race is the present absent moral river steadily flowing underneath the nation’s feet, but no one is ready to dig below the surface until it bursts in the open to disrupt the “normal” and otherwise “peaceful” daily life routines. “Normal” means that race is not a topic of conversation or a factor…
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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 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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