Middle Eastern Studies
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After centuries of cruel chattel slavery, African slaves rise up to massacre their oppressors. A protracted & bitter war ensues, the rebels taking refuge in the marshes & rivers th...
» Shams al-Maarif: Why is this mystic book feared in the Middle East? | Middle East Eye https://t.co/z3rRusRu32
The narrative that the Golden of Islam started with the translation movement in the 9th century during the Abbasid Empire is not true and is just another Orientalist projection ont...
The condition of the Arab armies during the first Arab-Israeli war:
Middle Eastern influences in Shakira's singing voice —🧵 Thread https://t.co/CSUXTMKUIL
In 1911, the national #Palestinian newspaper "La Palestine" was founded by Issa El-Issa (9 years before the British mandate) One of the most influential dailies in Palestine & the...
Left: Abla Dajani, 18, at her home in #Jerusalem in 1948 Right: Abla, now 92, walks past her old home like a stranger. It's been taken over by Israelis since 1948 "A lifetime of...
The unfortunate terror attack on the Chinese Hotel is just one of many since Usama declared his war on the west and east. (This thread is educational and does not reflect my views...
A crash course on history of PALESTINIAN STATE: 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire...
“He told me you are a #Yezidi, either we will kiII you or you will convert to lsIam . I said, please kill me, don’t rape me, I love my husband. He said it’s not your decision. This...
Dabke is an Arabic folk dance which originated in the mountains of the Levantine region; including Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan & Syria. Dabke is derived from the Levantine Arabic wo...
[Thread] Salafism in Southern #Kurdistan 1. Only a few Kurdish people were exposed to Salafism in the 1990s. When the ruling Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Islamic Mo...
There has been a lot of confusion by researchers and analysts when it comes to understanding or articulating how decisions are made by the IEA. A lot of this stems from misundersta...
MEMRI TV has to go down as the most spectacular propaganda failure in the history of the art. A Mossad op to cherrypick the most outlandish specimens in the Arab World, but it just...
(Thread on Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardawi, who just died in Doha at the age of 96). Qardawi's standing is often attributed to his connection with Qatar and his use of new mass media that...
[Short Thread] Khosrow II and the collapse of the Sassanid Empire
Note that only around 1/5 are less religious, rest are AS religious or MORE (1/3). ONLY Muslims present such statistics in our era of neoliberal globalization (& secularization)....
Thread: "Bharat-Afghanistan"!! An interesting interjection from Geopolitical and Geostrategic perspective!!! Fasten your seatbelts to get ready to fly with Modiplomacy!! (1/23)
🤔🤔🤔🤔 which wahhabis are u talking about? r u talking about Umar ibn Khattab (RA) the one who prevented the people of susa from seeking help (istighatha) on the grave of Prophet Da...
THREAD 🧵 - Conversion of Persia ( Faras / Iran ) from Sunni Islam to Shi'i Islam. - The lesser known persecution of Sunnis. (1/n) https://t.co/EKqeerV3c2
Recently, I’ve been updating the syllabus for my course on social movements in divided societies, which I taught last fall. A lot of interesting research has come out in just one y...
Mohammed bin Salman Has Forged a Third Way for the Arab World https://t.co/9fcUMzxstH
I set out to the Middle East years ago as a teenager to study Arabic and the Shari’ah. So many years (+ 4 kids) later I reached a key milestone in a way I never expected, right her...
1. The Practice of Jizyah – Jizyah Series – Part 3 The first implementation of Jizyah was done by the Prophet himself on the Nazranite Christians of present day Yemen. The Nazrani...
