Daqamseh’s Mother and Defeated Heroes
Moroccan writer and intellectual, Al-Saleh Bu-Walid, gives reason to hope that sanity may one day come to reign in our unstable and hate-filled part of the world in spite of the likes of Daqamseh’s mother. He was participating in a studio discussion on a TV programme hosted by Al Jazeera in July 2011, entitled “The […]
Joseph Aaron Stang: Galut, The Court Jew, And Arab Law
I recently read a conversation between two Jews. One of them wanted to offer shelter to some Syrian refugees but the other thought that was an “idiotic” idea because of security concerns. This conversation made me think of Charity, that force that was initially powerful enough to threaten ancient Rome, and that now sounds dumb […]
Who Is a Colonialist? With My Apologies to England and France
High school history lesson in some far-away future Today, class, we are going to be discussing the thorny issues of indigenous versus colonialist rights, based on the case of England and France. Let us start with the background. The year the world changed (again) was 2025. The United Nations had finally succumbed to fatal illness, […]