Author: ImadadDean

The new Congress may gave us a glimpse into a conflict between the imperialism of Carolyn Maloney’s “feminism from above, bestowed on black and brown women by white ones” and “the progressivism of [Ilhan] Omar and [Rashida] Tlaib represents feminism from below“: Two Muslim Women Are Headed to Congress. Will They Be Heard? (Foreign Policy)…

A “century after Muslim soldiers from South Asia, North Africa and elsewhere went to war for their colonial masters, a U.K.-based campaign is working to shed light on their oft-overlooked sacrifices”: The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers Who Fought in First World War Trenches for the Allies (Global News) An Israeli social media expert was present at…

“A Jordanian source, with an inside knowledge of his country’s diplomatic affairs, told MEE that the Saudi decision is part of a bilateral agreement with Israel to put an end to the ‘Palestinian identity and the right of return for refugees”: Saudi Arabia Bars Nearly 3 million Palestinians from Hajj and Umrah (Middle East Eye)…

“During her tearful primary election victory speech in August, with her immigrant mother by her side,” Rashida Tlaib, “the daughter of Palestinian immigrants … said relatives in the West Bank were watching her success. ‘It just shows how incredibly wonderful our country can be’”: Ex-Somali Refugee, One Other Become First Muslim Women in US Congress…

“Where anti-BDS legislation is almost certainly unconstitutional is in the United States (see, for example, this 2016 article in the Harvard Law Review). That’s where the real war for justice in Israel-Palestine is being waged”: On Boycotts, Academic Freedom, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel-Palestine (The Nation) Germany’s foreign minister, has “proposed that Europe…

Disturbing leaks emerge in the Khashoggi murder including allegations that the reporter was strangled and dismembered, … Prosecutor Says Khashoggi Was Strangled and Dismembered, but Fate of Body Still a Mystery (Washington Post) and his body dissolved in acid on the consulate grounds, … Trump and the Saudis Keep Fumbling After Khashoggi’s Killing (Washington Post)…

American Muslims are united in condemning the terrorist murder of Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue and in offering support … Pittsburgh Muslim Community Offers Protection for Jewish Services After Mass Shooting (The Hill) Within Hours, Muslim Groups Raise Thousands for Pittsburgh Synagogue Victims (Haaretz) ‘We’ll Be There’: Muslim Community Raises $70,000 for Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack…

“Mueller’s investigators examined a series of [pre-inauguration] meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn … [which smack] of covert action planning, which is … uniquely the province of the sitting president”: Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran (Daily Beast)…

“To select just a certain period that could be one or two centuries out of 3,000 years and to call the site a Jewish site is really a joke” — Nazmi Jubeh, a historian at Bir Zeit University who “would like to see the site but it is off limits to Palestinian archaeologists”: New Israeli…