The Continued Relevance of Edward Said
Ali Shafei | 22 May 2012
“The message remains the same” (Photo credit: AP) I recently had the opportunity to attend the 2012 commencement ceremonies at Columbia University. While I will admit to getting choked up a bit at hearing ‘Pomp and Circumstance,’ the most memorable part of the ceremony was the keynote address delivered by John R. MacArthur, publisher and president of...Arabs and the International Media’s Cult of Violence
Joseph Farag | 4 May 2012
Demonstrators from across the political spectrum gathered to voice protest at the ruling military junta To watch international news coverage, including Al Jazeera English, one would think that violence spontaneously erupted in the Abassiya district of Cairo out of the blue. As friends in Cairo tweeted and posted to Facebook about demonstrations that have been...Women’s Rights and Misogyny in the Arab World
Joseph Farag | 28 Apr 2012
Bahrain women protesters (photo credit: REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed) Mona Eltahawy made waves this past week with her provocatively entitled Foreign Policy article, “Why Do They Hate Us?” The title is a reformulation of Fareed Zakaria’s Newsweek article, “The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us?” which was published shortly after the attacks of September...The Two-State Solution May Be Dead, But the One-State Solution Is No Better
Daniel Steiman* | 9 Apr 2012
(Photo credit: Patrick Thomas) In his article in favor of the one-state solution, Yazan Al-Saadi correctly points out that it is safe to conclude that the Peace Process, as formulated under the 1993 Declarations of Principles between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, is effectively dead. The breakdown of the 2000 Camp David Accords and the bloody...Brazil’s Ascent: Lessons for the Arab World
Ali Shafei | 27 Mar 2012
Learning is a two way street (Photo credit: Getty Images) Ten years from now, twenty years from now, you will see: oil will bring us ruin. Oil is the Devil’s excrement. – Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, Venezuelan diplomat, OPEC co-founder Last week, Brazil was declared to be the world’s sixth largest economy, overtaking the UK. Few economists or policy-makers...Art and the Arab Uprisings
Laith Ulaby | 21 May 2012
Poster of Bashar al Assad in the Old City of Damascus (Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliverlaumann) There is no doubt that visual culture was a big part of the protest movements that swept across...On Mona El Tahawy’s “Hate” Argument
Mohamed Daadaoui* | 2 May 2012
Mona El Tahawy’s latest article in Foreign Policy has provoked a firestorm of controversy in the blogosphere. Her provocative title “Why do they hate us?” evoked the much-loathed question posed by Bernard...PODCAST Interview with Brazilian Activist and Artist, Carlos Latuff
Muftah Editors | 23 Apr 2012
Scenes We'd Like to See- Revenge of the Egypt Unveiled Woman In this Muftah podcast, we speak with Carlos Latuff, the controversial political cartoonist from Brazil, about his development as an artist and...Amnesty International: Torture in Bahrain
Muftah Editors | 5 Apr 2012
In November 2011, the Bahraini Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), a committee of international jurists appointed by the Bahraini government to investigate incidents that occurred during the Bahraini uprising...Obama’s Speech to AIPAC
Muftah Editors | 5 Mar 2012
An image capture of US President Barack Obama addressing the audience at AIPAC (Photo credit: Channel 10) On March 4, 2012, Obama addressed the powerful Jewish-American lobbying group, the American Israel...
