Hundreds of Syrians protested on Sunday, March 22, in Bab Touma, a Christian neighborhood in the old city of Damascus, against restrictions on alcohol sales imposed by the new authorities. (Credit: AFP)
“Secularism,” “Islamism,” “Islamophobia”… For years, these terms have been central to political and media discourse about relations between the West and the Arab-Muslim world, but also between Western states and their Muslim communities.Amid this turmoil, Islamists and Islamophobes converge on at least one point: Both reduce Muslims to a fundamental singularity. Previous edition of Voices from the ME Living in Iraq: A geography of fear and the homes we build within In the Middle East, the Islamist question occupies a central place in local and regional politics — a consequence, among other things, of the long confiscation of the public sphere by authoritarian regimes.The Arab uprisings, their failures or unfinished trajectories, revived questions about the democratic possibility in a region where political Islam has long presented...
“Secularism,” “Islamism,” “Islamophobia”… For years, these terms have been central to political and media discourse about relations between the West and the Arab-Muslim world, but also between Western states and their Muslim communities.Amid this turmoil, Islamists and Islamophobes converge on at least one point: Both reduce Muslims to a fundamental singularity. Previous edition of Voices from the ME Living in Iraq: A geography of fear and the homes we build within In the Middle East, the Islamist question occupies a central place in local and regional politics — a consequence, among other things, of the long confiscation of the public sphere by authoritarian regimes.The Arab uprisings, their failures or unfinished trajectories, revived questions about the democratic possibility in a region where political Islam has...
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