Shlomo Sand: “I am not a Jew. I am an Israeli.”
Bestselling Israeli historian Shlomo Sand on identity politics, political despair, why Lieberman is right… and drowning sorrows with Mahmoud Darwish.
Read MoreBestselling Israeli historian Shlomo Sand on identity politics, political despair, why Lieberman is right… and drowning sorrows with Mahmoud Darwish.
Read MoreFundamentalists in America and Egypt are obsessed with “virtue “and “vice”. But the rise of Islamists threatens to bind Egyptian women in a moral vice.
Read MoreThe Holy Land is where Christmas began. But with the relative decline of Christianity there, does the yuletide still retain its spirit?
Read MoreJailing Egyptians for insulting religion and the military goes against the revolution’s spirit, and violates people’s secular and sacred rights.
Read MoreEgyptian atheists and religious sceptics are a minority that exists in reality but not in official statistics.
Read More‘Catholic’ education thrives in Belgium, but the decision between principle and pragmatism is not easy when choosing a school.
Read MoreConverts have become pawns in Egypt’s increasingly bitter standoff between Muslims and Christians.
Read MoreIf 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?
Read MoreFollowing the lead of Islamists, Egyptian Christians are trying to ban an award-winning novel, Azazeel, because it ‘insults’ Christianity.
Read MoreChristians across the Muslim world use ‘Allah’ to refer to ‘God’, so why has this led to violence and controversy in Malaysia?
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