...all the criticism he’s received on democracy promotion, the Obama administration has now already overseen one more peaceful transition away from Arab authoritarian rule than under the entire Bush administration....
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In the wake of conscription: Compradors or bricoleurs?
...readings of modern and contemporary Arab intellectuals—some of which were made by diasporic scholars from the Arab world and the global South—which, to put things bluntly, disparage their work. The...
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
by Simon During...detached conservatism from romanticism, as well as from a de Maistrean political theology that interpreted the struggle between revolution and reaction primarily as one between Satan and God. But it...
Canon fodder
...another to allow its tentacles into the Church itself. To combat that tendency, the Church has struggled to centralize its own internal codes. Most importantly, a Code of Canon Law...
The end of postcolonialism
by John D. Boy...celebrates the Arab Spring. The postcolonial did not overcome the colonial; it exacerbated it by negation. The Arab Spring has overcome them both. The drama of this delayed defiance Arabs...
Satire and policing the boundary of free expression
by Peter Ronald deSouza...of a free society, that it so loudly proclaims whenever the issue of the limits of free expression come up in international affairs. This first set of issues, of the...
Old women: Transcendence of gender hierarchy, visibility, and authority
...the Muslim world during its heyday. One captivating story in the Mazhar al-ajaib describes Agha-yi Buzurg’s triumph over her rival, Mir-i Arab,1On Mir-i Arab, see Bakhtiiar Babadzhanov, “Mir-i Arab,” Kulˊtura...
Carceral afterlives: Recording my father’s prison memoirs
...and details with a keen desire to be fair to those who imprisoned them. When I spoke with Shaykh Al Muntassir, a former prisoner in the United Arab Emirates, about...
Beyond duality, for plurality
by Mbaye Lo...and Rhetoric professor at Cairo University, has critically lamented this intellectual deficiency in his 2012 Arabic book, The Eloquence of Freedom. His argument is that the Egyptian streets were wiser...
Religion and the emerging transnational Arab public
by Charles Gelman...is no necessary incompatibility between the religious faith of many who participated in these movements and their modern aspirations! Read “The Arab Spring: Religion, Revolution and the Public Square” here....