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Mubarak Steps Down; The Birth of a New Egyptian State

By Zaid Hassan

…lf-immolation, sparking the deepest and most widespread changes within the Arab world in generations. In the hours before Mubarak appeared on state television, rumours about his impending resignation swirled through the streets of Cairo, shooting across time and space through Twitter, Facebook, bouncing off satellites to millions of televisions around the world. The mood in Tahrir swelled with the crowds, as more and more people hit the streets, a…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…g new ways to honor its spirit would benefit everyone. Some people say the Arab Spring killed al-Qaeda; do you think that’s true? Do you think the Muslim world, by which I mean not just Muslim countries but Muslim communities and institutions, has the resources and intellects to fight off extremism? Only a fool, a fanatic, or a politician would presume to predict the future of the Arab Spring and the fate of al-Qaeda. The emergence of semi-democ…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…views with LGBT Iranian refugees living in Turkey, awaiting decisions from United Nations officials about if, when, and where their applications for asylum might be accepted. Although life in Turkey is far safer for LGBT people than it is in Iran and many other Arab countries, Turkey is still a challenging place for them, as the film shows. Luxembourg: Gay Prime Minister May Be One of First to Marry Under New Law Luxembourg’s openly gay Prime Mini…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…sm in a spate of attack ads, as if that instantly disqualifies one for the United States Senate. Do we, as they do in the land of our enemies, have any place left in ourselves for shame? Nick Street: A Beatnik Ode to 2008 Crypto-Muslim Arab terrorist-lover takes on tortured septuagenarian white guy burnishing his questionable maverick cred by tapping an apocalyptic fossil-fuel-besotted Alaskan for the GOP veep spot. Californians fearing their se…

An End to the “Gentleman’s Agreement” on Israel?

By Jay Michaelson

…as mediator in the Mideast conflict, and possibly lead to violence on the Arab Street. The “gentleman’s agreement” is also why Americans born in Jerusalem are, on their US passports, stateless people. Technically, Jerusalem is still disputed territory, and so the State Department refuses to list Israel as the child’s country of birth. In 2002, Congress passed a law requiring the State Department to end this charade. But, in accordance with the te…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ds of people. They carried signs like “Stop the persecution of gays in the Arab world” and “Your life isn’t worth more than mine.” So it felt like a deep betrayal when local officials banned the march at the last minute and police turned tear gas, plastic bullets, and water cannons on participants. (Turkish LGBT activists are not sure why the event was shut down after years without incident, but it fell during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and…

Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli

By Sarah Posner

…ction, almost, as a people went hand in hand with some destruction for the Arab citizens of Israel and of course for others who are not Arab citizens of Israel,” she said. Michaeli welcomed criticism of Israel from American Jews, adding, “I identify with this criticism.” “I’m happy,” she said, to have “support in my struggle for what I see as the Israel that I want to live in and I want to reconstruct as a democratic state that is the homeland of…

Darwin: A Muslim Perspective

By Hussein Rashid

…ther faith traditions, whose numbers are significantly smaller. The UNDP’s Arab Human Development Report highlights the serious lack of science education in the Arab world. If there is no basic science education, can we realistically speak of an engagement with scientific theories? The Turk Harun Yahya seems to funded at least in part by America’s Intelligent Design supporters, indicating, more than a rejection of evolution by Muslims, an affinity…

10 Years Later: An American Muslim Looks Back at Iraq

By Haroon Moghul

…terally (family) trees. That’s how we know. This fortunate ancestor (being Arab) spoke Arabic, so he found employment in the service of the Delhi Sultans, and the family line was from then on inseparable from Islamic law, arts and letters, and judgeships. They managed to make a decent life for themselves. Eight years after he left, the Mongols flattened Baghdad, annihilating the heartland of Islamic civilization. It was the first but not the last…

Netflix’s Iranian ‘Messiah’ Is a Gift to Trump and His Evangelical Base

By Tony Keddie

…ar (but by no means “solid”) teaching this viewer could detect is that any Arab or Middle Easterner might be a terrorist, whether they are an adherent of ISIS or a new-agey faith like Golshiri’s. It’s also worth noting that Golshiri’s message, presented as duping so many Americans, is a caricature of progressive positions: it’s opposed to capitalism, borders, and American military intervention abroad. The season ends with pious Christian families…