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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionFor England to be England, it needs to abandon British delusionsYou don’t need to be proud to be English to accept that you are. You can’t abolish a system you don’t recognise
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBeing a hyphenated Palestinian: an identity game of hide and seekIn a context of fragmentation and disconnect, what is the link that binds us all to claim our membership to a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe challenges of building a shared Iraqi identityIf we take the fracturing of Iraqi memory to be an indicator of the direction Iraq is headed, then it is clear that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBut what was so appealing about ISIS?What happened before, during and after the Tunisian revolution that made the Islamist morbid utopia seem possible...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon’s enduring contradictionsA century later, and after several civil wars and invasions, not much has changed in how different Lebanese...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy sectarianism fails at explaining the conflict in SyriaWhile sectarianism may be a component, its role as the primary cause of the war remains secondary.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK7 myths about immigrationOn the face of it, our many misconceptions about immigration form a very depressing picture. Yet more accurate...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK"One Nation Britain" and anti-extremismAs the government makes a grab for new terrorism powers, we need to examine the basis of its "extremism" narrative.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy the British elite loves WaterlooFor the British ruling class, June 18, 1815 was a high point: most battles since have been disastrous.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOur otherness: imagining Balkan and mid-Eastern identities
The original quote by Orwell is “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRighting a wrong: how to restore decency to the British Indian Ocean TerritoryPast injustices inflicted on the last outpost of empire need to be acknowledged – and redressed.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAssad's secular sectarianismA historic overview of the manipulation of sect and religion by a Syrian elite only concerned with survival.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPolitical Islam in neoliberal timesNeoliberalism devours other competing world-views through the commodification of cultural difference—turning a tidy...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaObjectifying female fighters
We must acknowledge women's agency without allocating gratuitous attention to physical appearances or banal...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe right to neighbourhood: way out of a sectarian quagmireIn Damascus there are no direct routes linking Jaramana to Mhajirin, or the Yarmouk camp to Sayyida Zayneb - each...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOpening the debate on sectarianism in SyriaIn a country where sectarian issues were ruthlessly suppressed for many decades, and where “instigating sectarian...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGhassan’s memoriesKanafani can make you dream of a free Palestine in a multitude of ways. A Palestine freed through writing, through...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe shifting balance of identity politics after the Syrian uprisingAn account of the drastic identity and narrative shifts during the Syrian uprising. The author focuses on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘The twain shall and do meet’: narrating conversion to Islam in BritainBeing British and being a Muslim have previously been seen as two identities in opposition. Does the conversion of...
