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Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…could not exist. If Lydda was to exist, Zionism could not exist.” For most Arab Israelis today that’s where the story begins. Those Arabs who are now citizens of the state of Israel weren’t the ones deported. In some cases, they may have illegally returned and managed to stay. Ben Gurion flatly refused to allow Arab refugees to return to their homes after the War of Independence in 1948 to the chagrin of many Zionists such as Martin Buber. Many no…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…earing and despotic political structure. In keeping with the spirit of the Arab Spring, Free Arabs, therefore, proclaims an emancipated form of political and cultural citizenship. The site’s heavy reliance on art and satire to deliver its pungent critique of Islamist politics, cultural norms, and oppressive regimes indicates an emerging form of aesthetic disobedience which seeks aggressively to compete with dominant narratives of Arab identity and…

The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

By H.A. Hellyer

…to the Arab world, which influenced it tremendously, both through Western Arab countries like Arab Spain (al-Andalus) and through continued ties through the ages. The West intervened as an imperial and colonialist power in different parts of the Arab world over modern history—and Western culture exists throughout the contemporary Arab world through globalization and popular culture. But inside of this first problem itself are two key issues that…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

As President Obama signs the health care bill into law today, we are watching the first draft of history. But imagine what students a generation from now will be taught about the most significant overhaul of this nation’s health-care system since Medicare if the conservative activists on the Texas Board of Education are successful at their long-range goal of using the public education system to rewrite history. If publishers kowtow to the board a…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, is the only functioning federation in the Arab world, composed of six states that joined together in 1971 and a seventh that decided to come along a year later. The two primary emirates are Abu Dhabi, the capital and wealthiest of the seven, whose territory is 87% of the whole country’s, and Dubai. Dubai is the second of the two, but easily the more famous. In the past fifteen years, the city has grown from a sma…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…ownright bizarre things “Cussing Pastor” Mark Driscoll says, usually while promoting a new book, as well as the ensuing negative publicity and essays critical of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book. Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited a…

You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

By Daniel Schultz

…n landscape since the first circuit riders hit the frontier villages. Even today, there’s no difference between Mike Lindell and a dozen televangelists, save a thousand milligrams of lithium. If you have any doubts about the commodification of the healing grace of God, google it for yourself. There’s a part of American Christianity that believes deeply and sincerely that if they can make it out of the lion’s den, they can teach you to do the same—…

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…ympathy for Palestinians. This is partly because of how we experienced the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring has had consequences for Israel, too. I’d argue that the post-Arab Spring political environment played a significant part in Israel’s decision not to launch a ground invasion of Gaza, rendering 2012 different from and far less bloody than 2008. After all, a live-tweeted, instagrammed incursion into the densely populated Gaza Strip, roughly the…

“1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little-Known History of Palestine

By Shaul Magid

…pening and they knew the Ottomans had no real interest in intervening. The Arab press in Palestine lambasted the absentee Arab land owners who were selling the land to the Jews at an inflated price, but to no avail. Those landowners had mostly left before the birth of any real national consciousness among the Arabs in Palestine. The Jewish labor movement was largely the brainchild of the Second Aliyah immigrants, the first “Zionist” immigration th…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…which is to challenge conventional thinking about developments inside the Arab world. Unfortunately, certain narratives have long held sway over popular understandings about the Middle East. Right now those narratives paint the Arab Spring as a failure. This book is meant to challenge those perspectives by presenting a view that is fact-based and rigorously defended through primary and secondary sources What alternative title would you give the b…