This is part 2 of a two part article on Political Islam first published in the ISR. THE REVOLUTIONS and mass protests that have spread across North Africa and the Middle East are, at their core, democratic, secular, and (largely, though not exclusively) peaceful. These movements have confounded many a Western commentator rooted in Orientalist Read the full article…
This is part 1 of a two part article. It first appeared in the ISR. SINCE THE events of 9/11, the question of political Islam has taken center stage in world politics. The “war on terror” has transformed the whole discussion on the relationship between Islam the West. A slew of books and essays have Read the full article…
This article appeared in Mrzine, Commondreams, Dissident Voice and socialist worker. The events of September 11 laid the basis for the emergence of a vicious form of Islamophobia that facilitated the U.S. goals of empire building in the 21st century. This form of Islamophobia focused on the enemy “out there” against which the U.S. supposedly Read the full article…
This interview first appeared in Socialist Worker WHAT HAS been the impact of the U.S. occupation and its puppet government on women in Afghanistan? Has the U.S. liberated Afghan women as it claimed it would? FIRST, LET me say that after September 11, the U.S. government threw us from the frying pan into the fire. Read the full article…