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M. Shahid Alam: American Mamlukes
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:06 pm | M. Shahid Alam
It is a fact little known in the West, outside the circle of historians of Islamicate societies, that Islamicate states often employed soldiers and bureaucrats who were ‘slaves’ of the king or emperor. More >>
M. Shahid Alam: America’s Global War On Terrorism
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:43 am | M. Shahid Alam
The United States declared a ‘global war on terrorism’ within days of the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. In-stantly, terrorism was elevated by the US establishment and media into the greatest, most ominous threat ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Has Regime Change Boomeranged?
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 12:30 am | M. Shahid Alam
In the early 1990s, the fall of the Soviets produced a surge of triumphalism in the US. After defeating the fascist challenge in the 1940s, liberal capitalism had trumped its last adversary, global communism. This triumphalist mood was caught pithily in ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: An ‘Islamic Civil War’
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 6:01 pm | M. Shahid Alam
The war that Western powers – primarily US, Israel and Britain – began against the Islamic world after September 11, 2001, is about to enter a new more dangerous phase as their early plans for ‘changing the map of the Middle East’ have begun ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Pitting the West Against Islam
Monday, 27 November 2006, 5:40 pm | M. Shahid Alam
It is tempting to celebrate the creation of Israel as a great triumph, perhaps the greatest in Jewish history. Indeed, the history of Israel has often been read as the heroic saga of a people marked for extinction, who emerged from Nazi death camps ... More >>
Two White Sisters in Asia: Israel and Australia
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 1:38 pm | M. Shahid Alam
In a recent interview published in Haaretz, Naftali Tamir, the Israeli ambassador to Australia, articulates a perennial need for ‘white’ collaborators that has defined the Zionist project since its inception. More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Muslims = Terrorists
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 2:02 pm | M. Shahid Alam
Terrorism has long been the chief demonizing marker that Israel and the United States have used in their wars against Islamic states and peoples who have stood in the path of their imperial ambitions. More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Israel, US and the New Orientalism
Saturday, 15 July 2006, 11:16 am | M. Shahid Alam
The West has never had an easy time coming to terms with Islam or Islamicate societies. There was a long period, lasting more than a millennium, when the two were seen as existential threats. In order to mobilize the energy to contain and then roll back ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: The Muslims America Loves
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 10:34 am | M. Shahid Alam
Being a Muslim today – in the middle of America’s ‘war against global terrorism’ – carries some new hazards. But it is not without its bright side for a few Muslims who are eager to profit from this war. More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Real Men Go To Tehran
Monday, 16 January 2006, 11:53 am | M. Shahid Alam
The United States and Israel have been itching to go to Tehran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. That Revolution was a strategic setback for both powers. It overthrew the Iranian monarchy, a great friend of the US and Israel, and brought to power the ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Israel, Consequences of Uniqueness
Monday, 31 October 2005, 12:52 am | M. Shahid Alam
Why did the creation of Israel engender such deep but opposing emotions in the Islamic world and the West, leading to Arab wars against Israel and Israeli wars against its Arab neighbors, producing tensions that have poisoned relations be-tween Islam ... More >>
M Shahid Alam: Recognizing Israel - Or Selling Out
Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 3:00 pm | M. Shahid Alam
It appears that General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s military dictator since October 1999, is on a mission to legitimize Israel: and he is going about it with the zeal of a new convert. More >>
M. Shahid Alam: On Being Good Victims
Monday, 29 August 2005, 3:42 pm | M. Shahid Alam
At last Mr. Elie Wiesel has spoken of the ‘dispossessed’ in Palestine. It is ap-propriate that he should do so; that is what the world has long come to expect of him. A holocaust survivor and Peace Laureate, Mr. Wiesel has dedicated his life to preventing another ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: A Muslim Problem
Monday, 18 July 2005, 4:09 pm | M. Shahid Alam
It appears that Mr. Thomas Friedman has a Muslim problem. He has a great deal of trouble thinking straight when writing about Muslims; and, as the New York Times’ resident expert on Islam, he displays this malaise frequently, often twice a week. More >>
M. S. Alam: Global Disparitie - Of People And Pets
Monday, 14 March 2005, 12:08 am | M. Shahid Alam
Judging from the ever-more accurate measurements of global disparities that flow from the world’s leading humanitarian organizations – with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and OECD taking the lead – it would be no exaggeration to state that scholarly interest ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: America’s New Civilizing Mission
Monday, 17 January 2005, 11:13 am | M. Shahid Alam
In a world that is dominated by violence emanating from organs of the state, including incidental and deliberate acts of violence against civil-ians, the attacks of 9-11 came as a shock. Momentarily, these attacks had reversed the customary roles. A handful ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Testing Free Speech In America
Friday, 14 January 2005, 12:17 am | M. Shahid Alam
At the time that 9-11 stung America, I had been working on a book that would look into the question of Qur’anic reasoning; it would explore the different modes of reasoning that this Book employs to convey its mes-sage. More >>
America and Islam: Seeking Parallels
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 1:16 pm | M. Shahid Alam
History is made by people who seize the moments that circumstances offer and bend them to their purposes. When the conditions are adverse, they nurse their purposes, their dreams of freedom, dignity and power, so that when their moment arrives, they ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: America, Imagine This!
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 11:19 am | M. Shahid Alam
Over the past three years, I have followed the mainstream public discourse on the abhorrent attacks of 9-11 with the eerie feeling that I was watching a new version of Hamlet where the King of Denmark – the father of Prince Hamlet – dies a natural ... More >>
M. Shahid Alam: Is There An Islamic Problem?
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 12:45 am | M. Shahid Alam
I have brought together in this book some of the essays I wrote after September 11, 2001, essays in which I have tried to make sense – historical sense – of the events which transpired on the morning of that fateful day, between 8:45 AM and 9:43 AM, ... More >>
