I’ve met beer-guzzling Syrian rebels who carried the black Al Qaeda flag, but for whom this was no contradiction: Islamist stylings in Syria are typically part performance vocabulary, part unifying norm in a riven society, part symbolic invocation of guerrilla struggle in a post–Iraq War world, and part expression of pure faith.
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Decoding the Syrian Propaganda War
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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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Rich, Islamist and post-feminist
The ability of elite women to define whether or not Pakistan needs feminism is circumscribed by the fact that the battles feminism would have to fight have never been battles for them at all, but rather for those women who remain invisible as much because of their poverty as of their gender
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Portrait of a Revolutionary: Hossam El-Hamalawy
Hossam El-Hamalawy speaks about the role of Labour/Unions in the Egyptian Revolution Bassam [henceforth “B”]: How are you? Congratulations. Hossam [henceforth “H”]: Great. Thank you! B: Can you tell us about the post-revolution situation? There’s …
