أفكار منتصف الليل: عن الأخت ساندي، و أعداء الدين من الداخل
يا ترى الإعصار سأل اللي في العربية دي مسلمين ولا بيعبدوا الشمس؟ الساعة الواحدة صباحا بتوقيت بوسطن و فيه إعصار أنا سامعه برة و المطر بيضرب على الزجاج. إعصار اسمه ساندي، على رأي [...]
October 2012
September 2012
Morsi vs. Omar
As I looked at this photo [source] of Mohamed Morsi praying Juma'a in Italy, surrounded from three sides by his security detail, I remembered this beautiful story from the days of Omar Ibn El Khattab. A [...]
July 2012
Ramadan and Tisha B’Av
I started eating last night [28 July / 9 Ramadan / 9 Av ] right as my Jewish colleagues, here in my summer workshop in the US, started fasting – an amusing reversal of situation [...]
April 2012
Tunisia: Of flags and Salafis
[CROSSPOSTED IN FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE - TRANSITIONS] In the second such incident this month, Tunisia's hardline Salafis decided to scale buildings in order to, well, put up a flag. Seeing the cheers of [...]