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By Khaled Salih Summary: When ideology masquerades as scholarship, truth becomes its first casualty – and a nation’s self-defence its second. In The Islamist Labeling of Muslim CSOs, Anna Ardin and Mattias Irving don the cloaks of academia to perform a grand inversion: they transform Sweden’s legitimate inquiry
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By Khaled Salih In the aftermath of the historic Israel-Hamas deal, President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, granted an extended interview to 60 Minutes to detail the unconventional, deal-driven approach that shattered decades of diplomatic deadlock. When pressed on his extraordinary confidence about the agreement,
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By Khaled Salih “Today I am submitting to the cabinet the proposal to call for an official war, the revival war. In the two years of constant war, we remember how we began. We rose from the terrible disaster of October 7th. We rose with a bang on our feet.
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By Khaled Salih The Kurdish question, described by Ofra Bengio as a “geopolitical fault line” that has vexed the Middle East since World War I, remains a defining challenge for regional stability. In Kurdistan’s Moment in the Middle East, Bengio distills her decades of scholarship into a compelling analysis
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Shedding Light on Juan Cole’s Rethinking the Qurʾān in Late Antiquity (2025)
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By Khaled Salih How Trump turned diplomacy into theater, and humiliation into the grammar of global power. At Sharm el-Sheikh in 2025, Donald Trump transformed a peace summit into a masterclass in public domination. His gestures, jokes, and calculated delays exposed how performance, not policy, now defines international relations.
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By Khaled Salih I watched President Donald J. Trump’s speeches in Jerusalem and Sharm el-Sheikh. On his way back to the United States, I imagined he had asked me to draft a personal message for him. This is what I would have written. A Message from the President
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By Khaled Salih “The choice with which humankind is faced in every age is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.” — Jonathan Sacks I was at a small clinic with my elder son, waiting for a doctor to treat an ordinary infection. The waiting room was crowded
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By Khaled Salih There is a scene at the beginning of Amit Segal’s new book that feels almost too perfectly allegorical. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, sits in a small office in his official Jerusalem residence, not with a foreign dignitary, but with detectives from the national
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By Khaled Salih In the high-stakes theatre of international diplomacy, where the lives of millions hang in the balance, we might expect leaders to wield intellect like a scalpel, precise, probing, and unafraid to cut through the fog of politics. Instead, we often witness something far more banal: the
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By Khaled Salih “Eric Hobsbawm was an English historian who was probably one of the last true Marxists —and he was totally unrepentant about it at that. One of his parting shots through the 1980s was that if Marxism had killed millions, it would have been worth it if they
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By Khaled Salih islām’s 6 Doctrinal Truths Hidden in Plain SightBy Khaled SalihKhaled SalihKhaled Salih “Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.” Bertrand Russell In the West, discussions about islām are often framed