Homeland or TV’s most Islamophobich show.
Author: Laila Al-Arain/Salon.com I started watching “Homeland” because I was bored. All of my favorite shows were coming to a (season’s) end, and I needed something new to watch. I’m drawn to smart...
View ArticleThe miracles of IDF.
IDF gives me goosebumps, really. I might really be a masochist, since I regularly check their official facebook page. Yeah, an army. Has an official facebook page (and twitter, and instagram). Gotta...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson doubles down on support for Israeli settlements.
Author: Ali Abunimah/ Electronic Intifada Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has strongly reaffirmed her support for Israeli colonies built illegally on land stolen from Palestinians in the occupied...
View ArticleThe Book To Read: Robert Fisk & The Age of The Warrior.
This morning I found myself digging through my books, searching for Robert Fisk’s The Age of The Warrior (2008) . I did it only to read the preface again. The first time I read this amazing collection...
View ArticleMapping the “Other”: A one-way street of the West.
“The British Army adopted the same cynical colonial attitude in its cartography of Belfast. I still possess their sectarian maps of the 1970s in which Protestant areas were coloured red (of course) and...
View ArticleWhy I can’t celebrate Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this Friday to India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people’s rights,...
View ArticleWest vs. Islam: Playing The Religion Card.
In the spring of 2009, Barack Obama gave his famous Cairo speech. One of his first sentences was: „We meet at a time of great tension between the United States and Muslims around the world, tension...
View ArticleWhy Are We Still Stuck On “Humanizing”?
In one of her interviews, Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir says she’s “not one of those filmmakers who cares about humanizing Palestinians, that’s not my goal at all… I’m not interested in that...
View ArticleHow Our Mainstream Media Turned Into The ISIS PR Team.
Turning on the TV, browsing through the news on the internet, even walking on the street… So much repetitive talk about ISIS, all over the place. And yet, so often, I feel like nothing (new) is being...
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