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After his death at age 67, the late poems of Mahmoud Darwish have found new life in translation.

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"Post 9/11, America has declared war on Islam with the FBI in the lead at home. It notoriously targets the vulnerable, entraps them with paid informants, inflates bogus charges, spreads them maliciously through the media, then intimidates juries to convict and sentence innocent men and some women to long prison terms. Justice is nearly always denied. At times wilful killings are committed. The Detroit Muslims are their latest victims."

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Paper on Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (admittedly, I haven't read either).

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If you haven't gotten a chance to read up on Saudi Arabia's grossly under-reported war in Yemen, this article is a good start.

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"In reaction to the post-match violence in Sudan, several prominent Egyptian commentators have called for boycotting Algerian products and events. Bekhiet, however, believes such hasty and emotional reactions to be counterproductive. “Next we'll be boycotting Libya over a tennis match or Saudi Arabia over a basketball game,” he said. “We're suffering from a national hallucination. Is our national history to be written in a football stadium?”"

It is sadly ironic how much pro-government commentators and media are calling to boycott Algeria, but are far more timid to discuss boycotting the two biggest threats to Egypt and the region as a whole: Saudi Arabia and Israel.

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"The Jewish people were forced from the Holy Land by the Romans and wandered Europe for two thousand years until they could reclaim their rightful homeland.

Even when I was a kid, that story didn’t sound quite right. I began to read about Jewish populations in places they weren’t supposed to be--China, Ethiopia, Central Asia, India. Not only that, but also Jews tend to resemble the people they live among. That didn’t quite fit the standard biblical narrative and the story of the diaspora. If we Jews are all—but for a few converts along the way—descended from David and Solomon, how come there are so many holes in the story?"

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As`ad AbuKhalil never fails. This excellent piece discusses the demise of pan-Arabism, contextualized in the recent sporting rivalry between Egypt and Algeria to play at next year's World Cup. Frankly, I think FIFA should have disqualified both teams from the start; pre- and post-game media sensationalism set off an unnecessary wave of violence, ignorance, and jingoism.

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A brief interview with an Arab American ex-Marine on the Fort Hood shootings within the context of anti-Arab and -Muslim racism in the U.S. military.

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Can you tell a Chicano apart from an Iranian?

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This sort of coalition building between Muslims and Sikhs in America is much needed, given the troubled times we live in.

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"It was one of countless incidents in which Lowder, now 33, was mistaken for being White. 'I've been pulled over with my boyfriends because I looked like a little teenage White girl in a car with a Black man,' says Lowder, who is the fairest of her siblings. The reaction she gets from White Americans who discover that she's Black and biracial ranges from intense anger to firecracker curiosity. 'I become the great interpreter,' says Lowder, who is flooded with questions. 'Why do Black people steal? Can Black people tan? Why are the bottoms of their hands and feet pink?' she's been asked. 'But if I tell a Black person about my White father, they don't ask me to explain White people to them.' "

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"Iran is the largest market for Shariah-compliant assets, accounting for 35.6 percent of the global aggregate, The Banker magazine's "Top 500 Islamic Financial Institutions" ranking shows, reported ISNA news agency. Islamic banking assets continued with double-digit growth this year, even as conventional bank growth stagnated, The Banker''s survey said."
Islamic banking is not a solution to the ills of capitalism, but it does prevent some of the worst excesses of capitalism, such as the predatory lending practices that ultimately contributed to the global financial meltdown.

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The following is a table of internet access in Iran in 2005. Note that by “access” we are talking about dial-up and by “user” we are referring to “at least one hour every month”. (So much for Iran's "Twitter revolution" ...)

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TAMPA — Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car Monday evening when a bearded man in a robe approached him.

That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.

What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.

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It's not for nothing that General George Casey warned against an anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre. But a whole slew of childlike nimrods, spurred to action by Casey vowing that it would be "a shame if our diversity became a casualty," have taken the stage to decry such concerns as "political correctness." Michelle Malkin complained that this was worshiping "the false god of diversity." Pat Robertson demanded that Muslims be treated as "members of some fascist group."

Via Think Progress:

Alexios Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting the U.S., got lost in Tampa and tried to stop and ask directions from Marine reservist Jasen D. Bruce. But instead of offering help, "Bruce struck the priest on the head with a tire iron." The reservist believed Marakis, who spoke limited English, was an Arab terrorist. Bruce chased the priest for three blocks, "and even called 911 to say that an Arabic man tried to rob him."

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I don't like Roya Hakakian (the last article), but the first two are interesting; Wajeha al-Huwaider and Ali Hili are just as critical of Western imperialism as they are of domestic despotism and patriarchy.

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This is the result when people like Angelina Jolie collect/steal babies from other countries.

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Brief overview of the socio-economic situation in Egypt, within the context of the NDP's annual conference last week.

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