If this is not a people's revolution, I don't what is. How much more evidence is really needed to be convinced Egyptians have a visceral hate for their president?
Where else would you really see these two men on television? Excellent interview and insightful observations from both about what's happening in Egypt. Really worth your time.
Dr. Moosa, an associate professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University will give a presentation entitled: “Re-Thinking Modern Muslim Discursivities: Counterpoints, Dilemmas and Politics,”today at 5:00pm in Hale 270. Dr. Moosa is well known for his important work to modernize Islamic classic thought. Here is more on Dr. Moosa from the website of the department of religious studies at CU which is organizing this event.
The Center
for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado is organizing an interesting
event this afternoon on the Boulder campus entitled: Halal Muslim Love
Online: Finding a good Muslim Man in Colorado.
This is a presentation by Asma Hasan, a Pakistani-American award-winning author
of Red, White, and Muslim: My Story of Belief and American Muslims: The
New Generation.
Here's more from the flyer:
Wednesday, February 2 at 4:00p.m. Old Main Chapel, followed by a recepti...
Here is one of the best commentaries on the events of Tunisia of Egypt by Asef Bayat who first wrote about post-Islamism in Arab countries. He makes some interesting observations about a new Arab street that is not animated by political or religious ideologies but mostly by requests for democracy and human dignity. Here is one good argument from this article that will be tested in the next few days, months and years to come:
"The ‘middle class poor' are the new proletariat of the Middle Ea... Continue reading...
Many observers are comparing what's happening in Egypt to how things turned from a people's revolution in Iran to a brutal theocracy in 1979. First, the comparison misses an important and critical difference. That revolution had a distinctly religious figure behind it. Ayatollah Khomeini was in exile in France and was at the heart of that popular uprising. He managed to stir up passions through his religious sermons famously distributed on audio cassettes throughout Iran. One of the most stri... Continue reading...
According to AFP, opposition leaders in Algeria have called for massive demonstrations there on February 12 with "the intention to change the regime." Many Arab countries are following the events in Egypt through Aljazeera and regimes there are bracing for a new era of domestic politics. It's not premature to say that Arab leaders have heard the message loud and clear (even if Mubarak refuses to step down) that ruling with an iron fist can no longer be tolerated. Governance is not an absolut... Continue reading...
The famous Egyptian teleIslamist Amr Khaled just appeared on CNN (almost crying) and announced that 50,000 members of his LifeMakers Association will go out tomorrow to fight against the looting of public and private property. The situation is dangerously precarious. It's clear the regime is on its way out and it will be a messy situation for sure. Mubarak appointed his intelligence chief as vice-president. Clearly this is a leader who doesn't make sense anymore and lives in his own world. He... Continue reading...
It is still unclear whether we have entered a post-Mubarak Egypt, but events on the ground all point to this fact. Egyptian television is reporting now that the head of the parliament says an important announcement will be made shortly. Thousands of people are in the streets welcoming the military and congratulating them on helping them take control. This is a historic development indeed. Aljazeera is reporting that a number of flights are leaving Egypt with businessmen and famous personalit... Continue reading...
According to AP, thousands of protesters are defying the curfew and are trying to occupy the ministry of foreign affairs and the building of Egypt's official television. Clinton's tone was stronger today in denouncing the violence but it didn't add anything new at this point. I'm sure that Mubarak will now say that he's willing to negotiate power (not in these terms) and he will announce some reform measures much like Ben Ali did in Tunisia at the height of the unrest there. This could be too... 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.
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.
