In August 2015 when Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel declared an open-door policy for Syrian refugees —

The death of Fidel Castro prompted some debate in the West. Many commentators concluded that the

On May 18th, Slavoj Žižek, Mamdouh Habashi, Samir Amin, David Harvey and Zygmunt Bauman participated in a

Perry Anderson in The New Left Review: The odious cast of the regimes in place [in

Is the new narrative of Arabs and north Africans simply “replacing the long held ‘Arab Exceptionalism’ narrative,

This is appropriate in Lebanon.

The Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, has put out a short PDF of critical responses

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4XKHkzDggk&hl=en&fs=1&] Juan Tizol was a trombone player, but a composer too (and a borinqueño of course).