Comment: The photo of a young, revolutionary woman dying on her feet, her male comrade on his knees holding her upright, will become the iconic image of the Arab revolutions, an image that will forever dwarf the tyrants.
Comment: Barack Obama's thoughts may have turned to his legacy and the historians who will write it. But his real historians are the innocent victims from Gaza to Kandahar, who may be silent but will have their say.
The Arab and Muslim worlds have too long seen popular movements toward democracy be derailed by religious fanaticism, whether Shia or Sunni. Neither Islamophobes nor Islamists should tell us what it means to be Muslim.
Racist cartoonists must be allowed to operate freely. There are good reasons for this just as it is important for Muslims to confront the fact that those behind the Charlie Hebdo attack were Muslim and defined themselves as such.
A debate between an Iranian royalist writer and a Marxist reader in the margins of a book about an 11th century Persian poet is vibrant living culture. Book bans and dead certainties about Islam and Muslims are not.
The locations of knowledge that the will to resist power implicates are outside the purview of self-centring sites of knowledge production that seek to rule and know the world at one and the same time .
A CIA report on torture was just the tip of the iceberg. That tools employed by dictators is widely accepted among the US political class coincides with continued imperialist notions of civilization and barbarism.
The dreams of millions who gathered peacefully to overthrow tyrants have been turned into nightmares for the West by criminal gangs attempting to establish a "caliphate".
The political calculus of "the people demand the overthrow of the regime" should never be read just as the overthrow of Mubarak and the temporary ascents of Morsi or Sisi. These are not significant figures.
The Iranian nuclear issue is integral to the geopolitics of the region. Iran is today infinitely more powerful than it has ever been by virtue of the systematic follies of a US regional policy completely determined by Israeli interests.
