Archive for October 25, 2008

“Malaysia’s main body of Islamic clerics has issued an edict banning tomboys in the Muslim-majority country, ruling that girls who act like boys violate the tenets of Islam, an official said Friday.” This makes it more urgent than ever. There is a need to issue the mother of all fatwawawas. I want to issue a [...]

Posted on October 25, 2008 by As'ad

“As the economy continues to unravel, we can expect women and children to become even more vulnerable than they are right now. Women are more likely to live in poverty, work minimum wage jobs, work part-time, and thus receive fewer benefits despite also shouldering childcare and eldercare responsibilities. To boot, women overall earn less than [...]

Posted on October 25, 2008 by As'ad

“The Arabs48 news website reported on Friday that a group of extremist Jewish residents of Akka (Acre) attacked on last Tuesday a pregnant Arab woman as she was on her way to an Arab school in the town where she works as a teacher.” (thanks Olivia)

Posted on October 25, 2008 by As'ad

“The report, Holmberg said, accused the company of acting in an “unethical” manner and of “violating international law” by having a subsidiary in the West Bank.” (thanks Marcy)

Posted on October 25, 2008 by As'ad

“The report, Holmberg said, accused the company of acting in an “unethical” manner and of “violating international law” by having a subsidiary in the West Bank.” (thanks Marcy)

Posted on October 25, 2008 by As'ad

I was looking forward to reading Neve Gordon’s Israel’s Occupation (University of California Press). Gordon has written critical pieces about Israeli occupation before and I was expecting the treatment to be sharper and tougher. I was rather disappointed. First, there is a tradition in the so-called Israeli peace camp where Israeli occupation of the West [...]

Posted on October 25, 2008 by As'ad

Michael Bonner’s Jihad in Islamic History (Princeton University Press) is a serious book that deserves to be read. It is written in the meticulous tradition of old-fashioned Orientalism–and I mean that as a compliment. But he mistranslates a few key terms from Arabic. For example, he mistranslates “baghy” as “outrage” (p. 6) and that really [...]

Posted on October 25, 2008 by As'ad