by JOSHUA LANDIS for MONDOWEISS (FACEBOOK RESPONSE) on MAY 8, 2013: Joshua Landis is a leading opponent of U.S. intervention in Syria. Last week we did a post faulting NPR’s Melissa Block for bringing up Landis’s marriage to an Alawite woman during an interview with him and Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. [...]
by YAZAN AL-SAADI for AL-AKHBAR ENGLISH on APRIL 1, 2013: In his foreword to Joe Sacco’s comic book Palestine, Edward Said, the iconic intellectual, wrote, “I don’t remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result…its untidy, sprawling format, the colorful, riotous extravagance [...]
by ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE (AAIUSA and Zogby Research Services) on MARCH 5, 2013: (Report Summary Excerpt) At the end of 2012, we polled more than 20,000 citizens in 17 Arab countries and three non-Arab Muslim countries (Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Pakistan). Our survey covered a range of topics, including attitudes toward Iran, its people, culture, and [...]
by ALI HASHEM for AL MONITOR on MARCH 6, 2013: “Our brother Hugo passed away.” These could be the very words the Arab world used to circulate news of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. For many Arabs, Chavez’s death means almost as much to them as it does to his loyalists in Caracas. For [...]
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on MARCH 6, 2013: Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, President of Venezuela since 1999, passed away from cancer on March 5, 2013. His death drew impassioned reactions from around the world. In the Muslim world news of Chavez’s death caused great grief, and Iran even proclaimed a national day [...]
Frances Hasso: Alternative Worlds at the 2013 World Social Forum (Tunis)
by FRANCES S. HASSO for ISLAMiCommentary on APRIL 23, 2013: Last month I attended the World Social Forum (WSF) – my first – in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. I study social movements and teach about the WSF and the very different and more established annual scrum of the powerful in Davos — [...]
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