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From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…the Arab and Muslim worlds. Those who shaped our narratives of the Middle East—our intellectual elites, commentators and columnists—failed to grasp the consequences of the Arab Spring. Just like Arab dictators faced with popular uprisings didn’t know what hit them until they were on a plane, in prison, or face-down in a ditch. Even the IDF, the supposed fount of Israel’s “start-up” success, seemed off in the new media world. The Arab Spring has…

Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel

By Shaul Magid

…s. Chief among them was that his call for a democratic shift in the Middle East represented a position Israel had to support even as it knew, for at least two reasons, that it would not necessarily be “good for the Jews.” First, if another true democracy did emerge in the Arab Middle East, Israel’s exceptionalist claim would essentially disappear. And second, given the anti-Israel and Islamist sentiment in the Arab street, Israel knows that an Ara…

What Role Should Religion Play in the Public Square? — A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist Debate and Discuss

By Brad R. Braxton and Anthony B. Pinn

…to ground their actions. I’m opposing religion providing the language and codes that shape the public. The public, I’ll say again, should be a secular space. BRAXTON: Let me say again, I gladly embrace a secular public sphere. Yet in a secular public sphere that is democratic, no singular person or group should decide what language and codes will shape public discourse and practice. As diverse individuals and groups engage, debate, and persuade o…

Controversy Over Jay Shetty’s Authenticity Masks the Bigger Question: Why is the West Drawn to Such Figures Over and Over Again?

By Prea Persaud

…e in Bali. Shetty is among the latest in a long line of “wise men from the East” who’ve found success in translating the “wisdom” from the East into the “language of the West” without the bothersome trappings of their particular cultural contexts. These “oriental monks” have traditionally accentuated their foreignness through their physical appearance—orange robes, “Eastern clothing,” long beards, etc.—as well as an aura of peacefulness. Part of t…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…c in Israel. But, along with the usual gestures toward peace in the Middle East, we also saw a remarkably high number of attacks on Islam, on Iran, and on Arab Americans. There was the Republican outing of Barack Obama as a ‘secret Muslim’ and the promotion of this theory to both elderly Jews and conservative Christians. One survey, released in October, showed that at a sizable portion of the Texas voters polled actually believed Obama to be a Mus…

Safety Not Guaranteed

By Jeanne Carstensen

…he upshot is that the three flood zones intersect exactly where we live at East 10th Street and Avenue B. A part of me knew it was absurd to pin my sense of security to a digital map. First of all, I didn’t want to be looking at it in the first place. If we had lived on higher ground it would have been moot and I would not have made a religion out of understanding the distinctions between zones A, B, and C. But I was only staying in the East Vi…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ect. It is currently operational in Central America, Uganda and the Middle East. Otis’ history in Middle East dates back more than two decades to when his father George Otis Sr., a close friend of Ronald Reagan and former Lear Jet executive, set up the High Adventure radio ministry in Lebanon in 1980. Otis put the station in the hands of Christian Falangists during the Israeli occupation. The US State Department tried to shut him down without succ…

‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

…ent situation, a causation model alone might predict effects from a Middle Eastern war that would help elect Trump. I am not proposing such a model. What I’m suggesting instead is that correlations exist between the political and religious situation in the Unholy Land and the political and religious situation in the Disunited States of America. Other correlations of this sort exist throughout the world. They are a product of the Great Dis-Ordering…

Why the Obama/Hillary Clinton Approach to Middle East Peace is Doomed to Failure

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

There is little chance that peace can be brought to the Middle East unless it is imposed on both Israel and Palestine by the international community. Calling for an International Peace Conference and an immediate cease-fire ought to be the first foreign policy priority for the Obama Administration. Instead, Secretary of State nominee-designate Hillary Clinton’s remarks to the Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday committed the Obama Administrati…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…that the U.S. has enabled Iran to become the dominant force in the Middle East. The Shiites are embittered by decades of Sunni tyranny in Iraq and centuries of Sunni dominance in the Middle East. Arab Shiites have not tasted power for centuries, and Iraqi Shiites are determined to redeem their ostensible right to rule Iraq that was denied them in 1920. Both sides and the Kurds have militia groups that are the real powers in Iraq. The main thing t…