Issue 4: Community & Crisis

Our final issue of the year focuses on questions of community, crisis, and the tensions in between.

Dec 30, 2025 • The Muftah Team

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When Populism and Authoritarianism Saved Democracy

In the past thirty years, the top 1% in America have added $21 trillion to their wealth, while the bottom 50% has lost $900 billion. We know from…

Dec 30, 2025 • Moshik Temkin

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Is Disarming Hezbollah and Hamas Possible?

The lesson of history is that armed movements do not disarm because they are defeated, but because political developments and integration make their…

Dec 30, 2025 • Emidio Lev Rahmani

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November 2025

The Day Cheney Died, and Mamdani Rose

A Canadian perspective on the recent death of the architect of the post-9/11 security state, and the rise of the son of a famed academic and critic of…

Nov 7, 2025 • Shenaz Kermalli

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The Burdens of Neoliberalism with William Barylo

Episode 12 of the Protean View podcast

Nov 7, 2025 • Riad Alarian and Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra

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October 2025

Dilemmas of Authenticity with Zaid Adhami

Episode 11 of the Protean View podcast

Oct 26, 2025 • Riad Alarian, Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra, and Zaid Adhami

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The Politics of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa

Episode 10 of the Protean View podcast

Oct 6, 2025 • Riad Alarian, Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra, and Christoph Schuringa

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July 2025

Can the Real Islamic Art Please Stand Up?

Islamic art often lacks clear classification, and the way art galleries treat it reflects that fact.

Jul 21, 2025 • Jamal Mehmood

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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…

Jul 17, 2025 • 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?

Jul 14, 2025 • 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…

Jul 10, 2025 • Imraan Siddiqi

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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.

Jul 7, 2025 • Daniel Tutt

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