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September 21, 2020
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Anjuman Rahman
The Black Lives Matter protests have brought to the fore the issue of slavery upon which many British fortunes were built. This has led to calls for schools to...
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September 15, 2020
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Usman Butt
Li Guo's Arabic Shadow Theatre 1300-1900: A Handbook is a sweeping survey and interesting introduction to all things shadowy and theatrical. It is rare to say that an academic...
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September 14, 2020
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Omar Ahmed
Most people would agree that it is important for parents to instil a sense of national and cultural identity in their children in order to preserve their heritage for...
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The Centre for Middle East and Africa (CMEA) in collaboration with Middle East Monitor organised a webinar entitled "Kashmir & Palestine: The destruction of Indigenous Cultural Heritage" on 10...
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August 26, 2020
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Ramona Wadi
It is rare that we come across writings of how people identify with Palestine. Zionist colonisation has created both a displaced population and a contradiction in terms of affinity...
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August 16, 2020
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Omar Ahmed
When one thinks of contemporary political Shia Islam the Islamic Republic of Iran tends to spring to mind, a theocracy which those familiar with the subject know is based...
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August 1, 2020
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Ramona Wadi
In the aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, Palestinians have had to contend with different forms of erasure and fragmentation of Palestinian identity, while acquainting themselves, without choice, with a...
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July 30, 2020
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Haian Dukhan
Tribes and Global Jihadism edited by Virginie Collombier and Olivier Roy is the collaborative work of scholars seeking to explore and explain the relationships between the tribal communities of...
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July 27, 2020
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Usman Butt
Ulf Laessing's book Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi is published at a time when it has never been so important to know what is happening in Libya, but few outside...
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July 21, 2020
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Lauren Lewis
"Boom, boom, boom, boom," says Sergeant Rudy Reyes, a former US recon marine, as he stares down the camera lens in the first episode of the BBC Two documentary...
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July 19, 2020
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Anjuman Rahman
This is an important book with an ambitious theme: the blockade of Gaza and the Egyptian government’s significant role in perpetuating it.
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July 4, 2020
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Nasim Ahmed
Supporters of Israel would have breathed a sigh of relief when the Zionist state postponed its 2 July annexation of the West Bank, in what was a humiliating about-turn....
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June 29, 2020
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Ramona Wadi
International donors have influenced and shaped narratives on Palestine, to the point that to speak about Palestine without reflection is an exercise in disseminating global perceptions and intent. Nadia...
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May 8, 2020
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Jamil Sherif
This is a work that will enthral those interested in the intersection of census data, map making using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and politics. It provides insights in the...
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April 29, 2020
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Usman Butt
The nature of authoritarian rule in Syria remains little understood outside the country. As a notoriously closed society with limited access to the outside world before the 2000s, with...
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A seminar in London yesterday considered the position of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Organised by Palestinian youth group OLIVE and the...
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April 14, 2020
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Usman Butt
Ahmed El Shamsy's Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed An Intellectual Tradition takes us into the story of how seminal works of Islamic philosophy, theology,...
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April 9, 2020
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Ramona Wadi
From 2013 to 2016, academic and activist Karma Chávez hosted a radio programme which gave voice to people supporting the Palestinian struggle for their rights and justice. Palestine on...
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March 17, 2020
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Naima Morelli
Palestinian ambassador Ali Kazak arrived in Australia in 1970, at the peak of the Palestinian revolutionary political and military activity. He found that the Zionist narrative was prevalent in...
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March 6, 2020
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Usman Butt
The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought by Andrew F March comes to us at an interesting time. The 2011 Arab Spring led many across the...
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March 4, 2020
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Naima Morelli
Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh's striking photograph titled "The past, the present and the future" depicts three women with blue skin; it is extremely evocative, and reminiscent of the painting...
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February 28, 2020
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Ramona Wadi
"It is particularly in Darwish's poetical progression that Palestine endured and became metaphor." This observation in the introduction to Palestine as Metaphor (Olive Branch Press, 2019) resonates throughout the...
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February 6, 2020
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Ramona Wadi
What the news reports eliminate, Ramzy Baroud's new book, These Chains Will be Broken: Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons (Clarity Press, 2019), pushes to the fore....
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January 28, 2020
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Anjuman Rahman
"Oh, you're Israeli." "No, I'm not Israeli! I'm Palestinian!" He stared at me for a few seconds in silence and then continued, in the same neutral tone; "Listen, I...
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January 27, 2020
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Ala Abbas
In this ethnographic study, French-Iraqi sociologist Zahra Ali embarks on a unique journey, capturing the voices of Iraqi women of all ages, religions and political persuasions to get a...
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December 27, 2019
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Ramona Wadi
The ostracisation of Palestine by the international community to facilitate its exploitation by colonial Israel is portrayed excellently in Palestine Past and Present (Nova Publishers, 2019). This collection of...
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December 26, 2019
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Usman Butt
Events in the Arab world and beyond over the past decade have ignited an intense debate about Islam, Muslims and political engagement. A common theme of western historical research...
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December 9, 2019
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Megan Giovannetti
The seventh annual Rise Up summit took place on 5-7 December at the American University in Cairo. The largest entrepreneurial gathering across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA),...
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December 5, 2019
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Muhammad Hussein
Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian territory, as well as the efforts that Israel goes to to impose second-class citizen status on Palestinian citizens and inhabitants of the occupied West...
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November 27, 2019
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Omar Ahmed
The Arab-British Chamber of Commerce was the venue for yesterday's workshop organised by the Academic Forum Muhammad Ali Luqman and supported by Independent Diplomat focussing on civil society, women's...
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Normalising Israel as a Jewish state absents "Palestinian experience, history and identity claims". Yasmeen Abu Laban and Abigail Bakan, Palestinian and Jewish authors of "Israel, Palestine and the Politics...
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November 23, 2019
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Omar Ahmed
Speakers at MEMO’s latest conference ‘The Palestine Question in Europe’ discuss Hamas, anti-Semitism and how Israel has become an example of how the West should live