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Important new book: “Stripping Bare the Body” by Mark Danner
October 22, 2009 – 11:55 am | No Comment
Important new book: “Stripping Bare the Body” by Mark Danner

Author Mark Danner has just published a book you might like to read if you are interested in national security, human rights, or American politics and foreign policy. It contains 20 years of his reporting …

Islam and democracy: They can work together – Canadian political scientist Nader Hashemi travels through history to make his points about the Islam of today
July 9, 2009 – 7:33 pm | No Comment
Islam and democracy: They can work together – Canadian political scientist Nader Hashemi travels through history to make his points about the Islam of today

Reviewed By FAISAL KUTTY
Published in The Globe And Mail
Nineteenth-century French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the relationship between religion and democracy in the West was the “great problem of our time.” While arguably it …

Chasing a Mirage – Political Islam Versus Secularism – A new book sparks a heated debate between Muslims of different schools
March 16, 2009 – 2:59 pm | 5 Comments
Chasing a Mirage – Political Islam Versus Secularism – A new book sparks a heated debate between Muslims of different schools

A REVIEW
by Nader Hashemi
Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
Tarek Fatah
Wiley and Sons
410 pages, hardcover
ISBN 9780470841167
“Those who thought that religion could be separate from politics understand neither religion nor politics. ”
—Mahatma Gandhi
Two …

Belonging and Banishment – Being Muslim in Canada
February 9, 2009 – 2:55 pm | No Comment
Belonging and Banishment – Being Muslim in Canada

Edited by
Natasha Bakht
A variety of Canadian voices come together here to explore some of the vital issues facing Muslims in Canada. Who, indeed, is a Canadian Muslim? This is only one of the fundamental questions …

Book Review by Ayub Khan – Chasing A Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of An Islamic State, By Tarek Fatah
June 12, 2008 – 11:55 am | One Comment
Book Review by Ayub Khan – Chasing A Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of An Islamic State, By Tarek Fatah

Book Review: Chasing A Mirage
It is a tragedy of the post-911 world that the field of Islamic concepts and terminologies have also fallen a victim to misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and plain hysteria. Fuelling these fears among …

GUANTANAMO’S CHILD – The Untold Story of Omar Khadr by Michelle Shephard – Book Review by Ziyaad Mia
April 19, 2008 – 5:15 pm | No Comment
GUANTANAMO’S CHILD – The Untold Story of Omar Khadr by Michelle Shephard – Book Review by Ziyaad Mia

By ZIYAAD MIA
GUANTANAMO’S CHILD – The Untold Story of Omar Khadr
By Michelle Shephard
Wiley, 270 pages, $29.95
‘We’ve got to spend time in the shadows. … It is a mean, nasty, dangerous dirty business out there, …

Book Review: The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency by David Dyzenhaus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 250 Pages.
April 17, 2008 – 7:02 pm | No Comment
Book Review: The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency by David Dyzenhaus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 250 Pages.

By FAISAL KUTTY
York University – Osgoode Hall Law School
Abstract:
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the ensuing war on terror has brought to the fore a number of issues that were not previously …

Taking on the Israel lobby: John J. Mearsheimer discusses his controversial book and the firestorm surrounding it – by PATRICK LEJTENYI
February 21, 2008 – 9:48 pm | Comments Off
Taking on the Israel lobby: John J. Mearsheimer discusses his controversial book and the firestorm surrounding it – by PATRICK LEJTENYI

By PATRICK LEJTENYI
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – Anyone who’s ever studied international relations at university should know the names John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. The Wendell Harrison Professor of Political Science at Chicago and …

The Prophet of Moderation: Tariq Ramadan’s Quest to Reclaim Islam – By Jonathan Laurence
September 18, 2007 – 11:55 am | No Comment
The Prophet of Moderation: Tariq Ramadan’s Quest to Reclaim Islam – By Jonathan Laurence

From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007
In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons From the Life of Muhammad. Tariq Ramadan. : Oxford University Press, 2007, 242 pp. $23.00
Summary: Depending on whom you ask, Tariq Ramadan is either …