Yahya Birt argues that dangerous undercurrents of white nativism have found their way into Islamic thinking. Recognising and disaggregating these ideas from our work is vital to maintaining the divinely commanded duty to challenge inequality and establish justice. Euro-America is going through a wave of

The “West”, as it is called, is only ten percent of the planet. But culturally it dominates the world. Understanding why and how is critical to breaking its grip argues Professor Ian Almond.   When I was five years old, the school teacher in my

The challenge of creating Islamic cities is one that is becoming ever more urgent and which requires the jettisoning of failed western architectural philosophies for ones imbued with the spirit of Islam, says João Silva Jordão Urbanism at its apex explores the interaction between the

The inimitability of the Holy Quran is a canonical belief of Muslims. The Quran represents the peak of linguistic eloquence. So how do translators and linguists tackle the task of getting across the precise import of the Arabic text without compromising its actual meaning? Nazmina

Richard Sudan looks at the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in the US, its overreach and its impact on security models.  He argues it was never fit for purpose and needs to go. 9/11 and the Climate of Fear This year will mark

Palestinian leadership’s adaptation to a world where the claims to US hegemony are decentralised is an urgent and overdue project, argues Ramzy Baroud. Linking Palestinians to terrorism is arguably one of Israel’s greatest hasbara successes. Long before the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York

For Afghanistan to break the cycles of violence and impoverishment it has been caught up in,  the new and subsequent governments need to let go of its colonial past and the internalization of colonial thinking, argues Shah Mahmoud Hanifi. It is useful to begin this