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16 December 2025 Kurdish Dancing as Resistance: From Govend to Ballet. When I heard the real on Instagram for the first time, these are some of the raw emotions that washed over me: A deep ache in my chest from the very first lines about the mountains and ancient land—
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Re-produced by Helena Lindholm and Nina Gren
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A visual summary of three articles
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For The Suicidal Empathy
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By Khaled Salih The Suicidal Empathy: How “Islamophobia” Became the Racism That Protects a ReligionBy Khaled SalihKhaled SalihKhaled Salih A curious superstition There is a curious superstition doing the rounds in certain corners of Western academia and policy circles: the belief that if we redefine reality cleverly enough, it will
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A Review of PAX ARABICA
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By Khaled Salih [I]n the 1800s the dominant racial ideology in America really was white supremacy. As a result, the master-debaters of that age often used their reasoning to justify anti-black racism. An example would be the American physician Samuel Cartwright. A strong believer in slavery, he
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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 This story might be difficult for some people to read. Two Testaments to Human Endurance Survivor memoirs hold a profound and unsettling place in the landscape of human literature. They are not merely records of suffering but acts of profound moral courage, forcing readers to confront the
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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 TRIGGERnometry Let me start by stealing and modifying a paragraph from Hussein Aboubakr Mansour: I would rather have you read this text suspiciously than credulously. I would rather you approach the arguments with rolled sleeves than with blind trust. For when you know I exaggerate, you do
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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