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The Christian Gene
And now for something light-hearted from CNNN – a pithy reverse-report on the discovery of ‘the Christian gene’ by gay scientists at the Pink Tiger Research Institute:
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The Inexorable March of Neo-Orientalism
The following article by Soumaya Ghannoushi insightfully addresses the media’s inability to disassociate Islam with war, instability and repression. An old chestnut (for those of us teaching Middle...
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This Is Tunisia
As noted in my previous post, religious antagonism is not the Tunisian way. Which is why I silently whooped when a friend posted the following image on Facebook: Protesters at a pro-secularism rally in...
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Researching Terror and Other Dangers
As an M.Litt. student in 2003 I wondered about the material we downloaded for our essays. Comprising seminars on political Islam and the ideologies of organizations such as Al Qaeda, we were directed...
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On Arab Profiling and Arabophobia
In light of the comments posted under the article on Republican Congressman Paul Broun’s call for profiling on ‘Arab looking’ folks a move to a Note is in order, as well as a shift from the personal to...
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Islamic Feminism Conference, Shimla
Since I love Islamic feminism and because events such as ‘Indian Muslim Women’s Struggles for Equality, Justice and Empowerment,’ hosted by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, deserve as much...
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Best of the Rest: Choosing not to Choose
An excellent piece by Raghda Butros, on being an ‘Arab Christian Muslim Secular Jordanian Palestinian citizen of the world': When I was in first grade, the teacher asked us to divide into two groups,...
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The (un)Chosen One
For 600 years it was taken that once appointed, the position was for life. The door had closed, the mobile had central-locked and the Vatican would be the last stop on the way to the Almighty. But Pope...
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