Police violence and a disproportionate number of racially-motivated incidents have sparked a summer of riots. The rhetoric of politicians, especially toward Muslims and Arabs, led up to the clashes.
Free speech is often seen as the pillar of enlightenment, and modernity, and necessary for a healthy, democratic society; it is seen as what keeps power in check. The freedom to express with no…
Last week, Rima Al-Sabah, wife of Salem Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, and a former Lebanese journalist, held her last major international reception, concluding 21 years of Arab and Muslim…
You are the First and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent, the Exalted, the subjugator over Your servants, Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful, and the One, the Only, Self-Sufficient Master.
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It is seemingly possible to borrow the famous headline of the well-known John Gray book “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” to describe the current French political/cultural situation. While…
The Russian war machine has been roaring, raising several questions that will preoccupy Europe for years to come. The aggression against Ukraine is by no means less than a historical turning point…
The first major American military intervention in the Middle East took place in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when nearly 400,000 soldiers were sent to the region as part of…
In February 2021, the International Union of Muslim Scholars’ (IUMS) Da’wah (calling for Islam) Committee issued a press statement saying it had organized the first so-called international conference…
Samira Benturki Saïdi is a prodigious Algerian intellectual, filmmaker, camerawoman, journalist, writer, and independent researcher in the field of history. She is also the founder and managing…
No sooner did Washington greenlight Ukraine's use of long-range missiles than Russia announced it had signed a law allowing a nuclear strike in response to such an attack
As we bear witness to the endless livestream of death and destruction on our phones, it is important to call Israel's war on Gaza what it truly is: a genocide
The cost of this war already dwarfs those from 2006, yet it shows no signs of ending. Israel can absorb some losses; Lebanon cannot. If its people turn on each other, it will get a lot worse.
Christian Zionists have long prided themselves on their undeviating support for Israel, but a closer look exposes an allegiance rooted in white supremacy, antisemitism, and Islamaphobia
With dreamy vocals evoking images of hills and homeland, the star and her husband together wove a new and more romantic version of Lebanon in the years before the civil war that feels very distant now