The Voice No More: Arab World Mourns Whitney Houston
JUAN COLE: Arab musicians and artists have been fulsome in their praise of Whitney Houston who died yesterday.
No Muslim Boogeyman in US – Report
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Anti-jihadis owe these American citizens an apology. But they won’t get one. Instead they’ll continue feeling the cold blast of hate.
Twitter Makes a Good Call: No Boycott Needed
CROSSROADS ARABIA: Twitter’s new censorship policy has turned up a hornet’s nest of ire throughout the social media world. But have they done the right thing?
The ‘Gingrich Newt’: Less Amphibious, More Reptilian
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Adelson would explicitly reject the dictum, kol yisrael erayvim zeh ba-zeh (“All Israel is bound up on in the other”).
The Republican ‘One State Solution’: So… What About the Palestinians?
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: You’ll notice a number of things about this piece of pro-Israel brilliance: Palestine? Nowhere to be found. Two states? Ditto.
U.S. Warns Iran Closing the Strait of Hormuz Means War
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Right now I’m thinking of that Marx Brothers line: To war! To war! Fredonia’s going to war! Except this will be far from a farce.
Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Joint Mossad-MEK Operation?
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: I am not a supporter of Iran’s nuclear program. But I am even less a supporter of assassination as state policy.
The Top Five Foreign Policy Changes That Face the United States in 2012
JUAN COLE: Many of the dangers to which I pointed in last year’s list still exist, of course, but a whole host of new difficulties has emerged.
The View from Over Here: Shifting Perceptions of the U.S. Post Arab Spring
SALIBA SARSAR: Surveying 3000 people in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and the UAE, the poll assessed attitudes toward US- MidEast relations.
Arab World Christians Shaping Own Destiny
JUAN COLE: The some 12 million Arab Christians (out of plus 350 million Arabs) are very much agents in their own fates. They make alliances, and sometimes switch them.
Hate peddling: Why Republicans are Failing Israel, Palestine – and Themselves
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: They have yet to understand they can support Israel without desecrating Palestinians; that their pandering is harmful to everyone.
Kingmakers, Invention of the Modern Middle East
STEVE ROYSTON: Book Review: Here you’ll find the Britons and Americans – proconsuls, agents provocateurs, spies, politicians – that shaped the Middle East.
All American Muslim: An Alternative ‘Reality’
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: The problem right-wingers have with ‘All American Muslim’ is that it doesn’t play to the usual stereotypes.
Opinion Shift: Support Weakening for Once Unquestionable Israel Funding
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: In the past, anyone who dared question military support for Israel would have been taken to task, labeled anti Semitic…
Home of the Brave? Branding to America’s Seven Million ‘Thriving’ Muslims
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: The lesson from these examples is courage pays off. Muslims show loyalty to brands supporting them in the public space.
Iran’s Capture of the U.S. Stealth RQ 170: Let Speculation Begin on the Fallout
DAVID ROBERTS: Certainly, this is a blow for the U.S. When grainy footage emerges from China of a wing shaped UAV taking off, we’ll know how much so.
Reality TV: Challenging US Muslim Sterotypes
Reality TV show All-American Muslim is a step ahead in exposing American Muslim society as diverse, but also continues to perpetrate several stereotypes.
Controlling Syria’s Future: In Whose Hands?
RAMZY BAROUD: The lines are thus drawn, between US-led Western camp and Russia and its own camp, which vehemently rejects a repeat of a Libyan scenario.
News Analysis: Sarkozy and Obama’s Gaffe
NEWS ANALYSIS: As if life isn’t difficult enough for President Sarkozy now he has to contend with the consequences of a leaked ‘private’ conversation.
Rap’s Inception ‘Pioneered by Muslims’
LAVON L. BROWN, SUHAIBWEBB: A socially engaged group of artists, the Last Poets, infused their work with religious tropes, setting the template for today’s rappers.
