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Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…ideology, ‘Islamism,’ is surprisingly descending.” It’s not that satire is new to the Arab world or that Islamist-bashing is a recent phenomenon. But, the proliferation of this kind of defiance in the wake of the Arab uprisings must be read in a dramatically different light. If there is such a thing as a defining paradigm, or at least an enduring spirit, of the Arab Spring, it has to be the fact that it never was a total revolution or a drastic hi…

To One Early 20th Century Rabbi Skeptical of Zionism, Passover Isn’t Simply A Celebration Of Freedom — It’s Also A Warning

By Shaul Magid

…hegemony; a story of freedom and a story of unfreedom? This year the incongruities are much more acute. Jews worldwide will sit at a Seder and tell this story while children starve in Gaza, while mothers become childless, while people become homeless, while the stench of death fills the spring air. They will sit and tell this story still traumatized by the ruthless murder of 1,200 in Israel (including both Israelis and non-Israelis). But it isn’t…

In a Time of Chaos and Misrule, Mardi Gras’ Subversive Message is Virtually Meaningless

By Ed Simon

…exchanges roles, makes sense from nonsense and nonsense of sense.” In this world of rigid social structures, carnival was a free-floating utopia, not of location but of duration, found not in a particular place but during a particular time. Carnival signified a subversive promise, a taste of the abolishment of those things which control our lives. Even death, the plague in the midst of the celebration, was to be mocked by the partygoers. Academic…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…enever any criticism is leveled at it. From the piece: Among American Jews today, there are a great many Zionists, especially in the Orthodox world, people deeply devoted to the State of Israel. And there are a great many liberals, especially in the secular Jewish world, people deeply devoted to human rights for all people, Palestinians included. But the two groups are increasingly distinct. Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer…

End of the World: An Update

By Lauri Lebo

…unemployed woman who paid $1,200 to put up the sign on a park bench, alerting the people along the 10 Springs bus route that Christ will return May 21, 2011. The sign doesn’t say it, but the web site that it refers to let’s us know that Oct. 21, 2011 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” At the end of the article, there is what may be the saddest quote I have ever read in a news story: Exley has bittersweet feel…

Where In The World Is Barack Hussein Obama?

By Haroon Moghul

…ithout the employment of force? (I am asking, not advising or suggesting.) Today, El-Baradei is back in Vienna, rumor has it that Mubarak will be out of jail shortly, and Morsi remains in detention, his location uncertain. Many of the Brotherhood’s senior leadership has lost family members, sons and daughters; the grandson of the founder, too. Over 1,000 people have died in under a week. Churches are being burned and Christians attacked. And where…

The World Was His Canvas: The Legacy of M.F. Husain

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…es of 99 paintings on Arab/Islamic art, to be housed in one of the several new museums being constructed in Doha. When I first met him, at the opening of the new I.M. Pei Museum of Islamic Art in November 2008, he had completed just 19 for the Doha project. (By the time of his death, he had added another 14-16 paintings, bringing the total to 33-35, in what will remain one of several incomplete thematic projects that mark his extraordinary product…

Ask the Dust: Do Queer People Have to Explain Themselves to Religious Conservatives?

By The Editors

…e. The Dust resonates with the idea that we are each obligated to make the world a better place in some way. However, the way in which you improve the world need not include rescuing people from outmoded and harmful points of view, especially if they wish to cling tightly to them. There are no standard guidelines for how to harmonize these differences and there is an added layer of complication when dealing with your own family. Sadly, the unfair…

Bishops Search for Condoms in Cookie Boxes

By Mary E. Hunt

…uts Rock the Mall” in Washington DC on the 9th of June. They hope to set a world record for the biggest sing-along in history. Their new theme song says it all: “Girl Scout ignite a dream, ignite your hope, ignite the world on fire.” Now that ought to be enough to make the bishops tremble in unison. The contrast between the girls and “the big boys” will be vivid that day. My favorite local troop just got back from a horseback-riding overnight. The…

New Book Reveals How Faith is Like a Covert Operation for the Bush Family

By Frederick Clarkson

…f Andover and Yale, and secretive former director of the CIA—adjust to the new political reality in order to run for president in 1988? The answer to this question is part of the Bush family’s slow motion transition from old line Yankee blue bloods to good ol’ Red State politicians. The story begins with Doug Wead, a former Assemblies of God minister turned what Baker terms a “hybrid marketer-author-speaker-historian-religious-political consultant…