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Have the jihadis lost the moral high ground to the rebels?
It has been a season of earthquakes, and the political ones in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Middle…
New tensions in Egypt
Michael Slackman has a fairly extensive article in The New York Times on the Muslim Brotherhood's apparent consolidation of power…
The future of Haaretz (and of Israel)
David Remnick, in The New Yorker, profiles Amos Schocken, the prickly but principled (albeit ideologically nonconformist) publisher of Haaretz, which,…
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
The youth-driven Revolution of 2011, with its call for freedom and justice, is inscribing a new feminism, with a fresh…
When democracy alone is not enough
At Patheos, philosopher Roger Gottlieb discusses why "spirituality" is a necessary supplement to democracy.
Secular humanism, the Christian Right, and progressive education
Over at U.S. Intellectual History, Andrew Hartman wants to know why, starting the 1970s, the Christian Right came to see…
Religion and the emerging transnational Arab public
In the SSRC's Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum, Seyla Benhabib considers the recent and ongoing uprisings in the…
States of Devotion, a brand new blog
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU has recently launched States of Devotion, a trilingual blog serving as…
A Muslim revolution in Egypt
News organizations reporting on Egypt in the last two and half weeks have repeatedly raised the specter of the Muslim…