All Entries in the "Mikoa" Category
The Arab Tomorrow
The Arab world today is ruled by contradiction. Turmoil and stagnation prevail, as colossal wealth and hypermodern cities collide with mass illiteracy and rage-filled imams. In this new diversity may lie disaster, or the makings of a better Arab future.
Islam and the Making of State Power
In 1979 General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, the military ruler of Pakistan, declared that Pakistan would become an Islamic state. Islamic values and norms would serve as the foundation of national identity, law, economy, and social relations, and would inspire all policy making.
FEMINISM BETWEEN SECULARISM AND ISLAMISM: THE CASE OF PALESTINE
West Bank and Gaza
ISLAMIST WOMEN’S ACTIVISM IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Interview with Sameera Al-Halayka
WANAWAKE Iran baada ya Mapinduzi ya Kiislamu
More than thirty years have passed since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, yet there remain a number of questions and ambiguities about the way the Islamic Republic and its laws deal with contemporary problems and current circumstances, particularly with regard to women and women’s rights.
smearcasting: How Islamophobes spread fear, bigotry and misinformation
A remarkable thing happened at the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) nominations in February 2007: The normally highbrow and tolerant group nominated for best book in the field of criticism a book widely viewed as denigrating an entire religious group.
The Totalitarianism of Jihadist Islamism and its Challenge to Europe and to Islam
When reading the majority of texts that comprise the vast literature that has been published by self-proclaimed pundits on political Islam, it is easy to miss the fact that a new movement has arisen.
Islam, Political Islam and America
“there is no chance of communicating with any U.S. administration so long as the United States maintains its long-standing view of Islam as a real danger,
Liberal Democracy and Political Islam: the Search for Common Ground.
forthcoming, Siasa, Philosophy and Economics
The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam
As a cultural movement Islam rejects the old static view of the universe, and reaches a dynamic view. As an emotional system of unification it recognizes the worth of the individual as such, and rejects bloodrelationship as a basis of human unity.
ROOTS OF MISCONCEPTION
EURO-AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS OF ISLAM BEFORE AND AFTER SEPTEMBER 11
Kazi, Ukoloni, Ubaguzi wa rangi?
A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
US Hamas policy blocks Middle East peace
Failed bilateral talks over these past 16 years have shown that a Middle East peace accord can never be reached by the parties themselves.
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