By Salim Mansur Our age is indeed the age of intellectual organization of political hatreds. It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity… To come down specifically to the political passions—the “clerks” [Benda means in French by “clerks” what is meant in English by “intellectuals”] were in opposition to them in two…
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Mo Hamdouni I almost always take the qahwa bldiya (traditional café) as my observation point when I travel. Not out of exoticism, and not to “watch people” the way one watches an object, but because the qahwa bldiya is a small theatre at the right scale: everything is public and yet discreet; everything is close and yet regulated. The cup,…
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By: Middle East Eye | Date: November 12, 2025 | Youtube.com In a new ITV documentary, Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, former Israeli soldiers describe how Gaza civilians were killed, often without warning, in an environment where “anything that moves” became a target. In the hour-long film, soldiers reveal how young and unarmed Palestinians were used as human shields in…
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By: Financial Historian | Date: December 5, 2025 | Youtube.com Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali lived during the height of the Islamic Golden Age, but his analysis of money, morality, and power feels like it was written for the 21st century. This video uncovers how a medieval scholar understood the psychology of wealth, the danger of corruption, and the economic consequences of…
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Notable Muslim writers in English who have addressed the UFO issue include Nadeem Haque and Charles Upton. The latter is the author of numerous highly-recommended books on mystical and esoteric subjects. Here is his new article. -Ed. A Possible Explanation of “The Collins Elite” by Charles Upton One significant element in contemporary UFO mythology is the notion of something called…
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