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A Religious Spring
Professor Malika Zeghal of Harvard University Malika Zeghal is the Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life at Harvard University. She is a political scientist who...
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Hope and Fear
Tunisians celebrate the success of Ennahdha at the polls Tunisia has voted. As anticipated, it seems that the Islamist Ennahdha (Renaissance)—which has struggled for decades as an officially...
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Political Islam and the US
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood at prayer, while protesting for the ouster of Mubarak The rise of Islamist movements in the aftermath of the Arab Spring is representing both a challenge and an...
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The Tightrope Prime Minister
Hamadi Jebali Tunisian Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, has committed himself to walking a fine line between advocating his own ideology of political Islam and safeguarding a stable democratic transition...
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How the Islamists Took Power
Supporters of Tunisia's Ennadha party chant slogans at a campaign rally, in October 2011 “How did that happen?” was the question asked by numerous Western commentators as the results of Tunisia’s first...
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Refusing the Politics of Piety
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi. (Tam Hussein)In 2012, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi went from being Sudan’s most celebrated poet to a political refugee. His poetry anthologies Songs of Solitude and the Sultan’s Labyrinth,...
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Nasser, My Grandfather
Gamal Abdel Nasser grandson demonstrates the Filipino martial art known as Kali. (Harry Shuman/Hannah Wilkinson)Since the removal from power of former president Mohamed Mursi on June 30, the Egyptian...
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Islamist Infighting
Supporters of the Salafist Al-Nour Party watch a speech given by popular Salafi religious leader Mohamed Hassan in Cairo, Egypt, on October 14, 2011. (David Degner/Getty Images)On one warm Cairo...
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