Silver Tree
Sitting underneath a silver tree,Remembering the night you came to me. Brazenly staring at the stars,Lying side-by-side on the grass …
Author Archives: Faheem A. Hussain
At the Mountain Place
Purple skies, blue mountains, plunging cliffs, lustrous greens, hues of yellow, and the faint songs of nightingales. Cross legged …
Olive Oil
If today’s actions are what I will harvest tomorrow, then today, and I mean every second of it, becomes …
Finding the ‘Key Stone’ Habit
Just begin. I know myself, or I’m pretty sure I do. I have an understanding of my own patterns and …
New Beginnings
So I’m trying a new project. I’ve been reading about habits and so forth; and recently one tidbit popped into …
Political Islam in Tunisia: a History of Ennahda and the Tunisian Exception
A review of Anne Wolf’s Political Islam in Tunisia: A History of Ennahda, a book that presents the hidden history of Tunisia’s main Islamist movement, from the 1960s until the post-revolution present.
Book Review of Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Religion Without God’
Unedited version – Submitted. The late Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal theory in New York and UCL, was …
Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism
Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …
Sherman Jackson on Differences in Legal-Political Philosophy between Establishment and Non-Establishment Scholars
That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …
Eugen Weber on Linguistic Diversity and the Nation
“Like the report of 1863, Grégoire’s seems to have taken an optimistic view. Many of the provincial assemblies discussing the …
