The Arabs Are Alive
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The Arabs Are Alive
Ziauddin Sardar tries to grasp the significance of the ‘Arab Spring’, Robin-Yassin Kassab spends some quality time in Tahrir Square, Ashur Shamis dodges the bullets of of Gaddafi’s henchmen, Abdelwahab El-Affendi traces the roots of the uprisings, Anne Alexander tunes into the digital revolution, Fadia Faqir joins women protestors, Shadia Safwan asks how long could Asad ...
In this issue
Surprise Surprise by Ziauddin Sardar
Lord Naritsugu is a terrifying, sadistic ruler. He enjoys grotesque violence and kills and rapes at will. He treats his citizen as private property, as his personal inheritance and fortune. He is a law unto himself, and no one can touch him. Elegant and insane, and always with a slightly suppressed smile, Lord Naritsugu does more than simply rape and kill his victims. He ...
Tahrir Square by Robin Yassin-Kassab
Cairo felt different. Tahreer Square, of course, carried a new set of meanings. The traffic, the pollution, the Stalinist gloom of ...
Gaddafi and Me by Ashur Shamis
Friday 11th April 1980. I was in Kuwait on a fundraising trip. After a hard day of rejections – I couldn’t persuade anyone to ...
Cafe La Vie by Rachel Holmes
Café La Vie, Ramallah. Chat, chink of glasses and beer bottles. Sweet apple smoke narghila and the tang of lemon and almond trees ...
Top Ten Towering Fatwas
A spectre is haunting Muslims - the spectre of fatwas. All the powers of old Islam have entered into a holy alliance: to issue more and more ...