Common Ground News Service

#MyJihad: The Struggle To Reclaim a Word

#MyJihad: The Struggle To Reclaim a Word

MONIQUE PARSONS, CGNEWS: It is one of the most over-used yet least understood terms in relation to Islam. A concerted campaign has begun to claim it back.

 Ahmed-Al-Omran

Was ‘Girls of Riyadh’ Raja’s ‘Rooster’s Egg’?

Was ‘Girls of Riyadh’ Raja’s ‘Rooster’s Egg’?

AHMED AL OMRAN: Her book caused an inevitable furore when it first appeared. So why haven’t we heard more from Raja Al Sanea?

 Common Ground News Service

‘Stereotype Killer’: Muslim Men Speak About Lives

‘Stereotype Killer’: Muslim Men Speak About Lives

NADIA MOHAMMAD, CGNEWS: Everyone seems to have an opinion on who and what Muslim men are. Time to ask the men themselves

 Common Ground News Service

Movie Shows How Islamic Art Changed The World

Movie Shows How Islamic Art Changed The World

NAAZISH YARKHAN, CGNEWS: A newly released documentary gives a compelling overview of Islamic art’s effect on the wider world.

 M.-Lynx-Qualey

Banned: A Day In The Life of a Kuwaiti Censor

Banned: A Day In The Life of a Kuwaiti Censor

M. LYNX-QUALEY: Kuwait always features highly in lists of press freedom in the Arab world but it keeps a tight rein on literature

 M.-Lynx-Qualey

Laughter and Anger: In the Court of Al Aswany

Laughter and Anger: In the Court of Al Aswany

M. LYNX-QUALEY: He is arguably Egypt’s leading public intellectual and every week he holds public salons whose numbers have swelled hugely over the past year.

 Richard Silverstein

The ‘Gingrich Newt’: Less Amphibious, More Reptilian

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”).

 Abu Muhammed

Could Now Be the Time for an American Spring?

Could Now Be the Time for an American Spring?

ABU MOHAMMED: What I miss the most is her promise to be able to live a good life, no matter who I am or was, as an equal to other men.

 The Moor Next Door

From the Front: An Encounter with Libyan Rebels

From the Front: An Encounter with Libyan Rebels

EILEEN BYRNE, TMND: Now that Qaddafi’s regime has been unseated thoughts of the men who did the fighting are turning to the nation’s immediate priorities.

 Mondoweiss

Masterful Obama Delivers Rebuke to Jewish Lobby

Masterful Obama Delivers Rebuke to Jewish Lobby

PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: A visibly angry Barack Obama, fresh from yet another humiliation at the hand of Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered a stinging rebuke to the Jewish lobby at the AIPAC conference.