What unites marginalized Sunnis in Iraq and the hardcore ideologues within ISIS is their desperation to be rid of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, who has left them with no choice but to operate outside of the political system in order to better their lives.
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Unthinkable Thoughts in the Debate About ISIS in Iraq
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Liberal Zionism After Gaza
from The New York Review of Books by: Jonathan Freedland Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Corbis Destroyed houses in the Shejaia neighborhood of Gaza City, July 26, 2014 Never do liberal Zionists feel more torn than when Israel is at …
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Not just numbers: online memorial publishes names, faces of Palestinians killed in Gaza
from the Electronic Intifada by Ali Abunimah Qassem Talal Hamdan, 23, was killed on 13 July 2014 in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. An engineering student, his “dream was to be a successful engineer to …
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Saudi Women: “I Will Drive Myself Starting June 17”
"We have searched for laws that prohibit women in Saudi Arabia from exercising their right to drive their own vehicle but have not found anything that points to such [a prohibition] in Saudi traffic laws."
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‘For me, Palestine is paradise’: An interview with Leila Khaled
Exclusive interview with Leila Khaled Recorded on Thursday 3rd of April 2014 First published here. Frank Barat for Le Mur A Des Oreilles (LMADO): How are you Leila? What are you doing nowadays in Amman? Leila Khaled: I am …
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Inter/section/ality
Audre Lorde taught us, “There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives.”
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Human Rights Watch Letter to Clinton on Strategy for Women’s Rights in Post-2014 Afghanistan
Grave Risk to Women’s Rights Without Heightened Commitment and Clear Plans
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War of Position and War of Maneuver: Sexperts, Sex Pervs, and Sex Revolutionaries
by Sima Shakhsari The recent issue of Foreign Policy on sex has instigated critical feedback from many who have rightly challenged racist and Orientalist representations of gender and sexuality in the Muslim and Arab worlds. Several critics have rightly …
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western feminism’s relationship with Islamic feminism and notions of “visibility”
by Ari Burton (originally published in hoax zine) The first book I ever bought on Islamic feminism sits on the shelf adjacent to the bed in my childhood room. Its maroon cover is subsumed by the mountain …
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Eyewitness Afghanistan
A recent talk given at the annual Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, May 2012.
