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Arab Culture / Cultural Studies / Intellectuals / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation

February 16, 2015

Abdelwahab Meddeb: The Malady of Islam (1)

The Malady of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb translated from the French by Pierre Joris and Charlotte Mandell (French edition published by Editions Seuil in 2002 English edition [o.p.] published by Basic Books in 2003) Table...

Arab Culture / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Translation

February 13, 2015

The Malady of Islam

Two days ago, this Romanian review (extract below) of my & Charlotte Mandell (under the name Ann Reid)’s 2003 translation of Abdelwahab Meddeb’s The Malady of Islam, published on 2/10/15, came to my attention. Yesterday I had news...

Islamic Fundamentalists / Israel

January 17, 2015

Uri Avnery: Waving in the first Row

January 17, 2015 THE THREE Islamic terrorists could have been very proud of themselves, if they had lived to see it. By committing two attacks (quite ordinary ones by Israeli standards) they spread panic...

Gaza Strip / Human rights / Intellectuals / Islamic Fundamentalists / Mashreq

December 6, 2014

Gaza writers receive death threats from IS

This article via Al Monitor: THE PULSE OF THE MIDDLE EAST by Hana Salah Posted December 5, 2014 Translator(s)Pascale el Khoury GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Mystery still surrounds the presence of the Islamic State (IS) in...

Arab Culture / Intellectuals / Interview / Islamic Fundamentalists / Mashreq / Middle East / Syria

March 15, 2014

Syrian Intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh Speaks Out

The Boston Review has just published a major interview with activist & intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh by Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi, co-editors of The Syria Dilemma. Yassin al-Haj Saleh is often called the conscience of the Syrian revolution. Born...

Arab Culture / Book Review / Intellectuals / Islam / Islamic Fundamentalists / Maghreb

June 22, 2013

Meddeb’s Islam & the Challenge of Civilization

If yesterday I posted Hind Meddeb’s letter from Tunis — an urgent cry for human rights &, I think, an accurate evaluation of the situation in Tunisia post-Arab Spring — I want to point...

"Arab Spring" / Arab Culture / Intellectuals / Islamic Fundamentalists / Maghreb / Politics / Tunisia

October 22, 2011

Tunisia, Elections, & Women’s Rights

Today Tunisians vote to elect an assembly charged with drafting a new constitution that may help bring the hopes of the Jasmine Revolution of last February to fruition by creating the basis for a truly...

Censorship / Interview / Iran / Islamic Fundamentalists

August 16, 2010

Sakineh Ashtian’s Attorney Interviewed in Oslo

The Huffington Post publishes an interview by Bernard Henri Lévy with Mohamad Mostafei, the lawyer of Sakineh Ashtian, the Iranian woman condemned to death by stoning by the Iranian clergy. Mostafei has been forced...

Censorship / Freedom of Speech / Gaza Strip / Human rights / Islamic Fundamentalists / Israel / Journalism / Palestine / Uncategorized

June 2, 2010

Alternate News re Israeli Acts of Piracy in International Water

The New York Times (the rag they call the “paper of record”) after 48 hours of holding its journalistic guns has come out blazing away… at the people attacked by Israeli commandos on the...

Intellectuals / Islamic Fundamentalists / Poets

May 26, 2007

Tahar Djaout — 14 years already

Fourteen years ago already! It was on 26 May 1993 that the Algerian poet & novelist Tahar Djaout was gunned down as he left his house in the morning to go to his job...