Elias Farkouh

Not in My Name

In a radio interview I heard last Thursday, an intellectual Pakistani man living in Britain spoke about his transformation from a Muslim belonging to a Salafist family (according to his own

The Lessons of Jules Jammal

I wonder about the boy crossing every day, on his way to school, a street in the Dokki district of Cairo. He sees on the wall of one of the buildings a small blue sign that reads, “Jules Jammal Street

The Key

67 years have passed since what they called the Palestinian “Nakba,” (“catastrophe”). I do not know who came up with that optimistic terminology which suggests that the worst that could happen had

Locking horns with history

Once again Daesh returns to ensure that everyone knows its hatred to history. Once against it repeats its attempts to erase “everything that was” and instead focus on the present that it is active in

Absent questions about extremism

I begin with a simple question that might seem to some as an oversimplification of a complicated case or naiveté that has no place. The question after Jordan joined the anti-international coalition