If Women Controlled Ijtihad
Last week news emerged of the latest fatwa admonishing women against bananas, cucumbers and other phallic edibles. In the same …
Category Archives: Islam
Rania Matar: The Veil
Rania Matar’s project ‘The Veil: Modesty, Fashion, Devotion or Statement?’ provides a uniquely insightful and captivating array of monochrome images, here. Feeling …
Islam and Domestic Violence
Putting the record straight in 2009 is Shaykh Hamza Yusuf: An irksome misconception about Islam is its perceived endorsement of …
The Revolution of the Youth
Or is it? Although today’s workshop ‘Arab Youth Politics: Challenges and Aspirations’ primarily aimed to gage the involvement of the …
Al-Qaeda and the Market of Jihad
Since the Egyptian Revolution began one voice has remained absent. Seemingly, it passed unnoticed, distracted as the world’s eye has …
War, Thy Name Is Terror… Or Is It?
Last year I posted on a seminar in which the students grappled with the application of the term ‘genocide‘. That …
Jordanian Protests
Continue in earnest. Spanning four successive Fridays the protests have ended more or less peaceably. Comprising of Islamist and Leftist parties, …
Israel: Love and Other Obstacles
I have become a hostage to #Jan25 – this we know. Which is a pity, as Al-Jazeera is running a …
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 …
Mubarak’s Censorship Unveiled
Wikileaks has posted a comprehensive list of the Egyptian government’s measures against critical opinion dating from 2009. Targeting authors, journalists, …
