Reports that NATO personnel had burned copies of the Qur'an first appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, February…
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Faith and the Occupy movement: What would Jesus do?
From very early in the movement, spirituality and faith have played a role in the Occupy movement. Religious observances began…
#OccupyWallSt, spirituality, and faith
On September 17, protesters heeded the call to occupy Wall Street and set up camp in a semi-public park in…
World Youth Day reassessed
Two writers at the The Guardian enter into the conversation about this year's World Youth Day and the public reaction…
Asecular revolution
Why have I chosen the term “asecular,” and not, say, “non-secular” or “post-secular,” to describe the power manifested by these…
Missed signals
At Muftah, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd reflects on how American observers may have overlooked the potential for political uprising, and eventual revolution,…
The power of a new political imagination
The Tunisian revolution, as a revolution of ordinary people, inspired the demonstrations in Egypt, leading to Mubarak’s fall. It has…
The elusive subject of revolution
Waking up to what looked like a new dawn, and not only in Egypt, a woman on Tahrir Square, who…
Power, normality, revolution
The degree of success of the Egyptian revolution is still undecided as I write these lines. The situation is critical,…
The road to Tahrir
While the uprising in Egypt caught most observers of the Middle East off guard, it did not come out of…