The Australia News Networks reported that a group of political activists aligned with the recently ousted government started movement to lead a campaign of resistance from outside the country. Those co-coordinating the plan say it will be a peaceful campaign of organised opposition. General Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power on May 22 and has since led a […]
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Mercan Dede says he’s like a vagabond reed flute
DJ Arkın Allen, aka Mercan Dede, is back in the limelight with a new album following a six-year break since his last studio release. Released this month via Onearth Records, “Dünya” (Earth) is the newest offering from the 47-year-old musician, born Arkın Ilıcalı in 1966 in Bursa, and known in Turkey and around the world […]
Muslimgauze: Beyond the Hypnotic Sufi Gimmick
Why am I not blessed with the kinda music which Bryn Jones dished out under the banner Muslimgauze? This is the question one can’t help asking in a climate of fear and victimhood. Next month 15 years will have been over since the passing away of Jones. We listen to politics trumpeted. But once in […]
There are no billboards on the streets. For the last four years, a week or so before the new season of Coke Studio is launched, most of the important billboards in major Pakistani cities are taken up by snazzy advertisements announcing the featured artists of the season. It’s the biggest annual ad campaign for any […]
West and Islam: Beyond Conflicts and Resolutions
In what appeared to have been uploaded four years ago, a YouTube video has Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, adored in the west as a traditional Islamic scholar with deep moorings in modern streams of thought and knowledge, having friendly chat with a motley group of scholars who straddled the diversity camouflaged in the binary expression Islam and West. […]
The Idea of Islam Today: Towards Non-Orientalist Genealogies
This is a transcribed speech of Talal Asad delivered at the American University of Beirut as part of an international symposium in honor of Talal Asad held by Arts and humanities initiative at the University. Tonight I will take up the concept of tradition and explore it in a more straightforward and elaborated manner. I […]
Imperial Continuity: Palestine, Iraq and US foreign Policy
Here Edward Said talks about the sheer violation of human rights with ‘the establishment of by force of a Jewish state on a land that was populated by the Arabs. This process began in the early 19th century culminated with the war between the Arabs and Jews in 1947, in which the Arabs lost. It […]
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