Shubbak’s Arab Arts Festival
This July London will be swathed in a whirl of Arab awesomeness, as Shubbak‘s festival of contemporary art and culture …
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Mladic, Caught
Sixteen years after the culmination of the Balkan War, the Bastard of Belgrade has been caught. By ‘caught,’ one must …
Israel, Palestine and the Twitter Frontier
It was only a matter of time before Twitter became the new frontier for conflict. Quick on the news that …
Manal Al-Sharif and the Counter-jerks
For every ardent campaigner there is a counter-jerk, and in the case of Manal Al-Sharif and her bid to place …
Dylan the Great
In case you have been under a rock the past week, Bob Dylan has turned 70. And for some (very, …
Best of the Rest: How do you define ‘Coexistence?’
This is so right, so beautifully God-damn right: We are not different, no one deserves to be treated different than any other …
FemEO: For ladies who (net)work
A dreadfully belated heads-up on a fabulous initiative launched by the folks at Bayt earlier this month. FemEO provides an …
Islam and Domestic Violence
Putting the record straight in 2009 is Shaykh Hamza Yusuf: An irksome misconception about Islam is its perceived endorsement of …
Saudi ladies and their wheels
For people with only a blinkable interest in the Middle East the words ‘women’ and ‘Saudi Arabia’ conjure one response: …
Study at SOAS?
There are so many things to love about this ingenuous short: in 4 minutes it blasts the romanticism associated with …
