Bestselling Israeli historian Shlomo Sand on identity politics, political despair, why Lieberman is right... and drowning sorrows with Mahmoud Darwish.
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Bestselling Israeli historian Shlomo Sand on identity politics, political despair, why Lieberman is right... and drowning sorrows with Mahmoud Darwish.
Fundamentalists in America and Egypt are obsessed with "virtue "and "vice". But the rise of Islamists threatens to bind Egyptian women in a moral vice.
The Holy Land is where Christmas began. But with the relative decline of Christianity there, does the yuletide still retain its spirit?
Egyptian atheists and religious sceptics are a minority that exists in reality but not in official statistics.
'Catholic' education thrives in Belgium, but the decision between principle and pragmatism is not easy when choosing a school.
Converts have become pawns in Egypt's increasingly bitter standoff between Muslims and Christians.
If God wants to reach out to humanity, why rely on prophets and scripture when he presumably has the power to connect with each of us directly?
Following the lead of Islamists, Egyptian Christians are trying to ban an award-winning novel because it 'insults' Christianity.
Christians across the Muslim world use ‘Allah’ to refer to ‘God’, so why has this led to violence and controversy in Malaysia?
