Browsing: Politics

It seems that the many governments of the world have been afflicted with a bout of myopia, and in keeping…

All praise is due to Allah, the One who hears that which is not heard by others, the one who…

A Dialogue with the Muslim Community on Music, Culture, Identity and Britishness. As we said in the beginning of this…

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun The tragedy of Gaza today…

In the first part of this essay I claimed that discourses shape the scope of our vision as well as…

It was, as historians will undoubtedly claim, a historic event, a time when democracy prevailed and the demarcation of race…

These are the democracies that gave us Guantanamo bay, Abu Ghuraib, Camp Breadbasket and internment without trial. Even if Muslims do want to make a democratic choice, and get the rare chance to exercise it, their choice never seems to be quite good enough…

…the discourse is not shaped by everyone equally, and thus the very discourse that seeks to explain and discuss the topic of integration, ends up establishing a differential of power…

O you who believe! Khamr (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, Al­-Ansaab, and Al­-Azlaam (arrows for seeking luck or…

I have, in the past, worked with many British-Asian women, many of whom were free and liberated, women of the…