The Ulema and the Price of Conviction
This version was previous published at the Maydan on the 8th of August 2019. __________ To much outrage, Hamza Yusuf, the prominent and …
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‘Miss is that your phone going off?’ ‘No, it’s not.’ ‘Miss I think it is.’ The class giggled. Embarrassed the …
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.
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 …
Egypt’s Liberal Coup – Clarification 1
Unedited – originally published here at twit longer. Original post here. — Some points that needed to be clarified asked …
Egypt’s Liberal Coup?
An older and shorter version of this essay first appeared in OpenDemocracy – Arab Awakening on the 13th of August, 2014. 1. In …
Faheem A. Hussain 