Posts Tagged ‘ arab ’

Peace in New Canaan

As Israeli-Palestinian peace talks fail again, it is time to build a New Canaan of diversity, tolerance and peace based on reimagined identities.

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Secular Egypt: dream or delusion?

Is Egypt on the road to theocracy or will it manage to build a secular, pluralist democracy?

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Islamist-driven democracy is not a snowball in hell

Islamists are not all Osama bin Laden and secularists are not all Atatürk . They can work together to achieve democracy.

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A drinker’s guide to Islam

A drinker’s guide to Islam

Although alcohol is 'haraam', Muslim societies have rarely managed to stay on the wagon, and vital parts of their culture have developed under the influence.

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9/12: Turning over a new leaf in the Middle East

On the 10th anniversary of the day after 9/11, it is high time to trash the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory and the ‘war on terror’ and start a new chapter in the West’s relationship with the new Middle East.

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Confessions of a ‘self-hating Arab’

Only self-hating Arabs and Jews can save the Middle East from itself.

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Rejected by the right, Western Muslims are only left with the left

No Muslim in their right mind would support far-right Christian groups in the West, though they may well symathise with their Muslim equivalents elsewhere.

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Atheists: Egypt’s forgotten minority

Egyptian atheists and religious sceptics are a minority that exists in reality but not in official statistics.

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Lost in demonisation

Israelis and Arabs tend to believe that they share little in common. But in reality they are more alike than they like to admit.

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Special report: Making harassment history

Egyptian and Arab bloggers have dedicated 20 June to blogging against sexual harrasment. This Chronikler special report examines, through personal testimonies and analyses, the causes of this troubling social phenomenon and examines various creative solutions.

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