The slim crescent that rose above the skyline on July 9th signifies the beginning of this year’s holy month of…
Revisited: The “good” and the “bad” Muslims of China
Middle East
A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
…I ask how Dawn might help us to think of the Americas and the Middle East together. What is to…
Racism and sectarianism
My use of Du Bois here is to think through fundamentally coeval, yet different, histories, vocabularies, and trajectories of discrimination…
Rethinking the history of the astral sciences in modern Egypt with The Lighthouse and the Observatory
How the history of science can inform histories of the modern Middle East (and vice versa) is precisely what The…
In-capacities of the soul: A reply to Largier and Iqbal
“It is the other who can see my form.” My friend Omnia El Shakry, also a participant in this forum,…
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders—An introduction
The Kingdom of God Has No Borders is a historical study, but it can help us understand the role of…
Obama, the Democratic Party, and Islamophobia
While reasonable people might disagree with him for his compromises on questions involving universal health care and his approach to…
Egypt’s uncertain future
Since the resignation of former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Egypt has experienced significant turmoil, from temporary rule by the…
The secular in non-Western societies
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the wider Islamist movement of which it is an instance, are in many ways…
Crisis in Egypt roundup
The public protests and ouster of elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian military followed by the appointment of…