The Kiss in the Time of SARS-CoV-19
For Suda J., who lives in M’rira (Tunisia) I dare not ask a kiss; I dare not beg a smile; [. . . ] No, no, the utmost share Of…
Mustapha Marrouchi
The Undoing of “White Privilege”
“Of course it is … impossible until it is done.” Daniel K. Young, A House Divided, 139. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as…
It’s Cruel and it’s Mean – Ugliest Thing You Ever Have Seen
White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this—which will not…
The Immediacy of Touchlessness
Part I My motive for writing this piece is to reach, by some other way, Barbara Bryson, and tell her that we love her. The citation below is…
Slow is Beautiful!
Misfortunes never come singly, do they? The pandemic which has turned us into emotional cripples illustrates our culpable sin of negligence of duties and obligations to the environment. Like old…
The Shortcomings of our Slow in Coming Modernity
The empty stare we have been projecting onto the outside world ever since SARS-Cov 2 invited itself into our life is pretty disconcerting. Although spring is here, and it is…
Negative Hallucination à la Trump
The English Language gave birth to William Shakespeare, John Keats, and James Joyce, to name but a few of the many bright stars. It also spawned the likes of Donald…
A Portrait Of The President As A ‘Mad’ Man
When the French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault wrote Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason in 1973, he did not have in mind President…
The Question Of Jerusalem
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President has ushered in a new era of uncertainty, nowhere more so than in the Middle East. The rules of the game…
Islamophobic With A Smile—The Quebec Case
When the Indian-Canadian and later Indian-American novelist Bharati Mukherjee complained in the 1970s that Canada was more racist than America, many people thought she was harsh in her reading of…
What Is To Be A Muslim In America Today?
Can one define what a Muslim is in the wake of the decision that President-elect Trump wants to take to ban all Muslims from entering America? The late Edward Said—were…
Dial O For Obama
As he prepares to say good bye to the White House, President Barak Hussein Obama leaves a trail of successes and failures. Notorious among the former are the Iran deal,…
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