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Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza)

The third in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.

European council votes in favor of niqab

A decree has been passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of Europe's human rights warning governments of forbidding Muslim women to don the niqab in public.

Debating Non-Violent Islamism

Berman gets Ramadan's struggle backward. Ramadan's primary adversaries are not liberals in the West but rather literalistic Salafists whose ideas are ascendant in Muslim communities from Egypt and the Persian

How is Islam the Solution?: Constitutional Visions of Contemporary Islamists

Kristen Stilt, How is Islam the Solution?: Constitutional Visions of Contemporary Islamists (May 20, 2010). Texas International Law Journal, Forthcoming; Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 10-22. Available at SSRN

‘Understanding Islamism’ focus of Global Agenda talk

Gerges said that “if today we were to have elections in the Muslim world, mainstream Islamists, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, would basically obtain between 25 and 30 percent

Islamism: why the west gets it wrong

Islamism is widely misunderstood in the west. It has its roots in a reaction to the global politics of the 20th century.

Savior movements

We can say that after surviving this last nationalist trauma, we have experienced with the Kurdish issue, we may move toward regional integration in line with the spirit of the

Religion and Media

Back to Religion editor conducts an interview with Kamran Pasha, writer and filmmaker, on religion and its relation with media.

The 500 most influential Muslims of the world?

The Amman, Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in collaboration with the Prince Alwaleed BinTalal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University, Washington DC, has issued a list of

Islamist Politics at MESA

Greetings from the 2009 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, where I’ve had the pleasure of attending four panels so far, all of which were interesting.