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Can the Real Islamic Art Please Stand Up?
Islamic art often lacks clear classification, and the way art galleries treat it reflects that fact.
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Jamal Mehmood
Pixar, Nietzsche, and the End of LARP
Onward is a Pixar film about elves and brotherhood, but it is more accurately about the LARPing ‘20s. It manages to suggest the rather involute thesis…
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Ahmed Elbenni
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Euro-Orientalism and the Making of an "Authentic" Europe
How, when, and why was Eastern Europe cast as Europe's internal outsider—barbaric, backward, and always just behind?
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Robert James Warren
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The Price of Solidarity Is Death. The Corries Know
As Palestine activism is increasingly criminalized, the story of two young American women killed decades apart by Israeli forces reveals both the cost…
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Imraan Siddiqi
Ideology and Authenticity
Critics of woke politics often reproduce its exact excesses. Only a patient, class-based analysis can avoid the trap of "wokeism's" anti-politics.
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Daniel Tutt

June 2025

Issue 3: Authenticity
What does it mean to be authentic in our politics, within systems of power, and in acts of resistance? How is “authenticity” claimed, challenged, or…
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The Muftah Team
Commitment in the Gray
Many praise doubt as a critical virtue—but what happens when skepticism becomes an excuse to waver in the face of injustice? As Gaza burns, intellectual…
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Zaid Adhami
Is the New Syrian State Revolutionary?
Post-Assad Syria was, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary transformation—in reality, its leaders inherited conditions that narrowed the horizon…
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Riad Alarian
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Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra
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Religion and the American Border with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Episode 9 of the Protean View podcast
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Riad Alarian
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Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra

May 2025

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