...free speech, they often act as though such speech floats above actual historical circumstance. Insulated against history, free speech can appear almost religious, at least in one critic’s sense of...
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Uprising in Egypt
Arab and American revolutions in history
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im...policy is an insult to and betrayal of victims of human rights violations throughout the world, including Christian minorities in the Arab world. As I argued earlier, “Religious freedom can...
Essays
Ducking the Arab Spring in Morocco
by Abdeslam Maghraoui...series of Arab Human Development Reports published between 2002 and 2009 show Morocco lagging behind most Arab countries (the exception being Yemen) in many important areas. Morocco’s electoral politics and...
Essays
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
by Olivier Roy...of a process of social and cultural changes in Arab societies, which, of course, is part of the globalization process. It is precisely because the Arab Spring is a succession...
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The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam
by Jake AlterHaroon Moghul reviews Sean Foley’s new book: The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam: We are in the midst of an unclear global transition, and Foley’s The Arab Gulf...
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The season of revolution
by John D. Boy...capitalist and racist modernity. But this hardly registers in a western-centric mindset and discourse, nor among many in the Arab world. Despite the obsession of the West with the Arab...
Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics 
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Fadi A. Bardawil
The Arabic Freud: Discourse interruptus
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Fadi A. Bardawil
...the politics of progress in its various ideological shades has influenced generations of Arab intellectuals since the nineteenth century. The Arabic Freud masterfully excavates the neglected archives of psychoanalysis in...