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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBlack Tunisian women: ceaseless erasure and post-racial illusion
Four black women from all walks of life speak up about their experiences. They can no longer be silenced.
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Published in: HomeIs Oxford University complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi's genocide denial?
Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe colonial roots of Trump’s discourse on Iran
The colonial image of Persians as hypocritical and unreliable is so deeply entrenched in western imagination, that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCritical voices in critical times: Fanon, race & politics - an interview with Mireille Fanon-Mendès France (part 2 of 2)
Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, activist, scholar, and daughter of Frantz Fanon, talks about the enduring relevance of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCritical voices in critical times: Fanon, race & politics - an interview with Mireille Fanon-Mendès France (part 1 of 2)
Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, activist, scholar, and daughter of Frantz Fanon, talks about the enduring relevance of...
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Published in: TransformationAfter the violence and videos, therapists learn to treat racial trauma
From specialized clinics for African Americans to social media events that take the shame out of sharing, there's a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTrump and Islamophobia: discrimination fuels terror
For Trump’s supporters, what they believe to be the ‘truth’ is a matter of no small significance. Now, and as a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIsraeli self-inflicted hate culture
A settler screaming at an injured Palestinian child, a racist mob lynching an Eritrean, and the killing of a Jewish...
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Published in: TransformationI take my orders from 23-year-old queer women
A leading activist pastor speaks about the emerging face of civil rights leadership in 21st century America.
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Published in: TransformationWill you commit class suicide with me?
Recognizing that privilege is unearned is essential to dismantling the white saviour complex.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTaking racism seriously: Islamophobia, civil liberties and the state
Racism and Islamophobia are driven by the practices of the powerful. Self-proclaimed 'liberals' need to know this.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The writer reflects on the role of language, foreign and Arabic, colloquial and classical, in Morocco; and on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe dilemmas of migration and the alternatives
Normal 0 false false false NO-BOK ZH-CN X-NONE Force and denial are not going to solve the migrant crisis—instead we...
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Published in: Shine A LightA green and pleasant land? The trauma of the British asylum system
The system of asylum in the UK pushes mental fortitude to its limits.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAnti-Syrian racism in Turkey
A wave of xenophobia is ruining the lives of Syrian refugees in Turkey where they are seen as criminals, accused of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDiagnosing the daily poison
We must see the tabloid right as a target in the battle for a better society.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCharlie Hebdo and western denial
The recent attacks in Paris were the latest round in a conflict of violence, not of “values”. The primary...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia(Syrian) black skin, (Lebanese) white masks
Refugees in Lebanon face a violent troika: the state, the Lebanese bourgeoisie, and the weather.
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Published in: TransformationHow I will prepare my white son for the interactions he won't have with police
Seamus’ whiteness means that I don’t have to teach him how to prepare for humiliation. That is white privilege in a nutshell.
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Published in: TransformationWhat are white folks to do? From Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown
In the wake of the Ferguson verdict I feel a swirling cocktail of grief, anger and outrage, but nothing I'm feeling...