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The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

…s called Masdar City, and it is down the road from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. It will be a model ecological city, with 80 percent of its water recycled for use; it won’t have cars; it will be run on power that comes from the sun. The water used for the crops will be collected underground and used all over again. Even the waste will be 100 percent recycled. This is not a dream for the future. Older sister has told them that it is alread…

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What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

…h better job than me in explaining the doppelgänger world you created… The Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa are united in a democratic superpower—the UAS—with its capital in Riyadh. Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey are independent democracies closely allied with the UAS. Israel, as you note, is located in central Europe; the story there is that after the Arabs beat Hitler, they broke Germany in two and gave the northern half to the Jew…

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Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

…exual activity,” which could be the lead in to overturn Section 377 of the Indian Penal code that still criminalizes consensual same-sex conduct, a remnant from an 1860 British Colonial Era law that exists in many constitutions across the Commonwealth countries even today. Malta: Civil Union & Adoption Law, Trans Protections in Constitution  This week the parliament of Malta passed, and President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca signed into law, a civil…

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The Arab, the Feds and the Flood: Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun Rescues America

…en smashes it before our eyes. He maps America onto an Arab, and makes the Arab the hero. Who else can do that? This was not Kabul, not Kandahar or Baghdad, but one of the most storied American cities, abandoned to flood. For too many days, we could not muster any response to Katrina beyond impotent voyeurism. The inability—or the unwillingness—of the World’s Greatest Empire Since Rome to rescue its citizens (or, indeed, provide keys to FEMA trail…

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Two Women and a Mosque: A Convert Community Grows in Panama City

…es. But she cannot attend the lecture, which is often given exclusively in Arabic to a majority Arab audience. She and Jackson want the new mosque to provide Spanish-speaking Panamanians with better access to Islamic teachings. They have provided their students with religious materials that have been translated from Arabic to English and Spanish. Jackson said she thinks women have the right to attend the mosque. She has spent most of her life in t…

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Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

…d ironical that India would use a colonial law to oppress its homosexuals. India needs to grow up. India needs to realise that it doesn’t need to follow British laws any more.” The actor is referring to India’s Section 377, a gay sex ban which was introduced in 1862 under British rule. The colonial-era law was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 2013. The law criminalises sexual activity “against the order of nature” and can result in a maximum lif…

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2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

…se FedSoc publicly casts itself as a non-partisan debate club, though, the code effectively protects Neil Gorsuch’s sacred right to don a bow tie next time FedSoc conclave rolls around. This ethics code exists largely as a marketing tool for reporters willing to buy what the FedSoc Six are selling, but also as cover for the justices’ clear preferences. Its language, which allows justices to participate in “a nonprofit civic, charitable, educationa…

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When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

…nt, and a pledge at the end. A final admonition declares that breaking the Code will result in immediate execution. The Code is illustrated with images pulled from a website promoting the 2007 Swedish film Arn: The Knights Templar. This past spring, copies of the Code were mysteriously distributed across Michoacan. Like La Familia, members of the Knights Templar must refrain from drugs and must commit to routine drug testing, but unlike La Famila…

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Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

…m” makes no sense, because the majority of self-identified Muslims are not Arabs, and many Arabs are not Muslims. But, incoherent or not, there’s clearly a racial dynamic at play in American political conversation about Islam today. Why else would brown-skinned Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians sometimes be subjected to ostensibly anti-Muslim violence? The racial language isn’t confined to those who support an immigration ban. As one indignant Republi…

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American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

…ng to hear the same message over and over again. Steven Newcomb, a Shawnee Indian, said it best in a column in Indian Country Today: What the hell were they thinking… the code name was based on an extension of the metaphor “Indians Are Enemies” to “Geronimo was a Terrorist,” thus perpetuating the US tradition of treating Indian nations and peoples as enemies. Maybe if the lessons of the Indian wars had been pondered before the misdirected invasion…

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