Cultural adornments: How clothes fashion identity and mask bigotry
By Khaled Diab The clothes we wear speak volumes about our individual and collective identities. However, the history of fashion
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Steve Bannon is being amplified, not silenced
By providing Steve Bannon with an uncritical solo platform, the Oxford Union has failed in its mission as a forum of free and fair debate, succumbing instead to tabloid sensationalism.
Read morePodcast: Baladi – from bread to dance
Baladi is one of those elusive Arabic words that can mean different things to different people at different times.
Read moreThe truth about Islamic reformations
By Khaled Diab Islam needs a reformation for Muslim societies to develop and prosper, is one of those rare convictions
Read moreEconomic recovery means little to Europe’s working poor
Europe is experiencing an economic recovery but many of the jobs being created a keeping people poor rather than lifting them out of poverty.
Read moreMuslim women in short skirts and the Tunisia paradox
Bombing Afghanistan will not bring back women in short skirts, rather it will only empower men in short skirts (beards and long trousers). The path to gender equality lies in internal reform, as Tunisia demonstrates.
Read moreFeminism’s Ancient Egyptian roots
Women’s liberation is generally believed to have started in the West but the roots of female emancipation go back millennia, to Ancient Egypt.
Read moreFICTION: Escaping terror firma, Part 4 – Drowning in a sea of dashed dreams
“I fully expect to be escorted off the ship and onwards towards oblivion, first in a prison cell in Israel and then in the prison of Gaza… But then…”
Read moreThe mirage of the meek Muslim woman
Incurable misogynist Donald Trump has Muslim women all wrong. They are not silent and submissive.
Read moreSexual harassment, Islam and the politicisation of women’s bodies
Sexual harassment in Cologne and elsewhere is not about Islam. It is about the patriarchy and the politicisation of women’s bodies.
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