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Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…cro level as they are about macro political shifts. On the way to creating better, more open governments and healthier economies, revolutions also transform individual expectations and perceptions about one’s local community and broader society—it is this sort of change that is currently taking root in various Arab Spring countries. A failure to appreciate these realities has largely blinded people to the multi-faceted nature of events unfolding i…

How to Meet Muslims: A (Cinematic) Primer

By Haroon Moghul

…War, a consequence of which was the independence of Bangladesh, previously East Pakistan. It all started when, after national elections, the party representing the eastern half of the country clearly won, but the dominant western elite refused to accept a result that would find them subordinated. Much of this refusal was rooted in ethnic supremacism and religious chauvinism (Many of West Pakistan’s elites often saw Bengali-speaking East Pakistanis…

Palin Cries ‘Blood Libel’: Can Words Harm Us?

By Susannah Heschel

…end of WWII, the blood libel left Europe and was resurrected in the Middle East. The alleged Jewish longing for blood, no longer Christian, was now often represented as money or land. The Arabic translation of The Merchant of Venice, for example, presents Shylock seeking not a pound of flesh from Antonio, but, as a Zionist, appropriating land from Arabs. The Middle East blood libel has evolved to include charges of Jews drinking Arab blood, serial…

No Democracy in Huckabee’s Orientalist Egypt

By Michael J. Altman

…d Said labeled this notion of inherent difference between the West and the East/Middle East “Orientalism.” In his groundbreaking study, aptly titled Orientalism, he wrote, “the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience.” This contrast has taken many forms in American culture like the image of the mystical and magical Orient represented in popular culture through films such as Disney’s …

The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…reate a different kind of impetus for change in their region of the Middle East? The rise of a new nonviolent popularism in the Middle East may seriously undercut the viability of the jihadi image of violent social change. On the other hand, a significant number of failures of nonviolent resistence may lead to a violent backlash once again. Not all protests will end like Tunisia and Egypt. Others will be ruthlessly crushed, as was the Green Revolu…

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…ring in Europe? In America? Do you think the Arab Spring might make things better or worse? I think partly in America and more so in Europe, Islam suffers from being the religion of the immigrants. Immigrant communities sometimes have problems simply because of their “alienness,” and the unwelcoming-ness of their hosts, and these problems can appear as a friction between Islam and non-Islam. Whenever I speak about this, I note that the EU member c…

Tragic Violence in Libya: No Excuse for Perpetrators—or for Provocateurs

By Haroon Moghul

…sands of troops, diplomats, and other Americans still stationed there. His promotion of this latest film has now contributed in some way to violence in Libya and Egypt, and that includes the death of one of our best ambassadors. We are on the precipice of war with Iran. The Middle East is deeply unstable, and we are unfortunately caught up in much of that uncertainty. This is not the time for inflammatory action; there are anti-democratic forces i…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…) It’s a great time to be an Jewish American activist working for Middle East peace. I know that sounds strange. Israel is once again devastating Gaza. The Palestinian death toll is rising steadily. Even the more liberal Jewish-American groups like the Reform movement and J Street were at least initially sympathetic to Israel’s attack on Gaza, despite the fact that the attack (no doubt intentionally) destroyed a real chance for peace with Hamas….

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

By Haroon Moghul

…arely a coherent economic concept (countries like Turkey belong as much to Eastern Europe as the Middle East; the Gulf more to India and East Asia than to Arab and Berber North Africa). On a recent trip through the region, via Istanbul, I took some pictures to capture some of the spirit of the place for lack of a better term. When you bring that many people together, chasing after money and the chance to strike it big—again, think American Wild W…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…just call it the Middle Ages, which is kind of like the middle child, meaning it’s just something or someone you’d rather forget—which is par for the course for an adolescent contribution to the humanities by someone who not only should, but can know better. I’m sure Dawkins can enroll in a course, take out a book, or even afford to buy a few. I’d be happy to make recommendations. Like this story? Your tax-deductible $5 or $10 will help us pay wri…