All Together? The Legacy of Egypt’s Jews
by Maurice Chammah At first I did a double take, seeing the word ‘Weinstein’ in simple block letters one story above street level in downtown Cairo. Continue Reading →
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All Together? The Legacy of Egypt's Jews
by Maurice Chammah At first I did a double take, seeing the word ‘Weinstein’ in simple block letters one story above street level in downtown Cairo. Continue Reading →
The Bullet That Doesn’t Hit You
By Maurice Chammah Nasser had…wanted the state to protect journalists from the market, but could that be done without making them slaves of the state?
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The Bullet That Doesn't Hit You
By Maurice Chammah Nasser had…wanted the state to protect journalists from the market, but could that be done without making them slaves of the state?
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Jewish Enough? The Saturday Oil-Pressers
by Janaki Challa The largest Jewish community in India…are descendents of persecuted Jews from Galilee who were left stranded on Indian shores by a shipwreck around the 2nd century BCE. Continue Reading →
Of Shrines and Syncretists
by Alex Thurston Teju Cole analyzes the destruction of the shrines by analogy: Mali is premodern Europe; Mali is Afghanistan under the Taliban…Then comes the interesting analogy: Timbuktu is Mecca at the time of its conquest by the forces of the Prophet… Continue Reading →
The First Draft of History: Wire Agency Reporting in Egypt
by Maurice Chammah The editors weren’t pleased. It was too complex…It would be easier, they decided, to frame the story as one of religious hatred. Continue Reading →
In the Shadows of Syria: Defusing Sectarian Tensions in Lebanon
by Irina Papkova For two weeks, Lebanon lived on the knife edge of a sectarian civil war. And here the truly interesting part of this story begins to emerge. Continue Reading →
Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy
By Austin Dacey The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was meeting to address “gaps” in an international human rights treaty on racism and racial discrimination. Continue Reading →
Calvin’s Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy
By Austin Dacey The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was meeting to address “gaps” in an international human rights treaty on racism and racial discrimination. Continue Reading →