Browsing Archive: August, 2010
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Tuesday, August 31, 2010,
Here is an interesting article about an argument seldom raised in the debate around Park51. The author blames liberals for incriminating mosques by continuing (in their attempt to calm fears) to say that the Muslim Cultural Center is not a mosque. Excellent point indeed and I should add that Muslims do this all the time by saying things like: this woman is veiled but she's quite liberal and cool, or that man is very devout but he's not an extremist. These are not inconsequential semantic conc... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Wednesday, August 25, 2010,
The Muslim Brotherhood today unveiled its new wiki Ikhwan (Brother in Arabic), a Web encyclopedia where registered users can edit and create content about the history of the Brotherhood and search for other brothers around the world, among many other things. This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with how the Muslim Brotherhood has always embraced new media technology, particularly when it enables a quick and efficient propagation of their ideology. Since the time of its founding ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Tuesday, August 24, 2010,
One thing that has become clear since the tragic events of 9/11 and is particularly
evident today in the discussion around the building of the Islamic cultural
center in New York is the lingering confusion over what constitutes a
"modera... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Tuesday, August 17, 2010,
This editorial is a bit overdue, but it's refreshing to read. The media have to tread carefully when dealing with cultural and religious tensions and not carry the most incendiary rhetoric simply because readers and viewers will flock to them. Continue reading ...
Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Monday, August 16, 2010,
There is plenty of ugliness in the acrimonious debate around the building of the Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York City. New Gingrich has topped it all this morning when he compared Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf and other organizers of the center to Nazis putting up a sign near the Holocaust museum. This comes after a concerted campaign of systematic distortions about the history and place of Muslims in New York City and in America and the real motives behind a bridge-building ini... Continue reading ...
I was born and raised in Morocco. My research focuses on the intersections between Islam, Arab popular culture and the media. I'm currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
