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... and nationhood in a historical novel that provides a fun escape even as it smashes any romanticization of the past. To many Westerners, the Middle East seems more confounding each day. How could the killings get any worse, the struggles more irrational? When the rebellion of Syria’s people...

... well for the field of consciousness studies. But clearly this is not an easy ideological leap to make while holding firmly and habitually to the Western belief that reality is a physical manifestation and/or a spiritual representation. The corresponding beliefs about consciousness (that it emerges from...

...Stephen J. Stern Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Philosophers of Catastrophe and the Last Kantian in Nazi Germany: How Judaism Redeems Western Philosophy by Stephen J. Stern...

... in this context by Adam Smith, referring to a tendency that the polls tell us still sputters altruisti­ cally below the surface in Western polities) may flower in the form of electoral support for fiscal and other programs to reduce economic inequality. Reflecting on our economic sadism, I think many...

... us. The decision to assimilate into the status quo of a Western society is an ambivalent one at best. It can be destructive but also benign. It is a difficult choice. Like Jews in eighteenth-century Germany, some Muslims in Canada have, since September 11, embraced self-deprecating humor, perhaps...

... Native American communities, many of which have lived experience with non-stigmatizing approaches to differences in community members’ talents and abilities. Western knowledge systems establish opposition concepts such as day/night, good/bad, and able/disabled. These dichotomies form the basis...

... to open up the region to the process of development, and life began to change rapidly. Within a few years Ladakhis were exposed to television, Western movies, advertising, and a seasonal flood of foreign tourists. Subsidized food and consumer goods — from Michael Jackson CDs and plastic toys to Rambo...

... AIN-ISTAN?” WWW.TIKKUN.ORG tration of American corporations, the Western and media, global Western the corporations, of American tration structive. While helping structive. to develop helping While a class, small middle the pene­...

... and gender identities. They do not need Western Western need not do They identities. gender and sexual their in its capital city of Kampala, fiercely and proudly announcing announcing proudly and fiercely Kampala, city of capital...

... of the United States. Coalescing in what was then the Wild West—the headwaters of the Ohio River, in western Pennsylvania—the rebellion em­...

... of all of Western medicine, which is also driven by our distorted insurance/payment systems. — Kate McClellan, East Palo Alto, CA BUDDHISM AND DUALISM David Loy’s web article “Toward a New Buddhist Story” is in general a well-informed piece, but the depiction of Buddhism is true only...

...Stephen Zunes Not only would including all recognized occupations of captive nations (Palestine and Western Sahara) in the divestment campaign help protect BDS advocates from spurious charges of “anti-Semitism” and broaden the movement’s appeal, it would help bring attention to the little-known...

..., a Western imperialist, a Zionist, a Palestinian, an undocumented immigrant, a homosexual, or a suspected terrorist. The list goes on. It has worked this way for thousands of years and the list of maligned groups grows rapidly in the modern world. And it is in this context that the continuum of violence...

... Chinese (and also non-Western) foreign Manchu overlords. Only after independence for for independence after Only overlords. Manchu foreign also non-Western) (and Chinese oppressed Manchus the and construct, imperialist an Dynasty) was Qing as the (Sinicised Empire Manchurian...

... of choice was often the vilification of the Prophet and the Qur’an. As Minou Reeves has shown in Muhammad In Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth Making , from the medieval period through the Enlightenment and beyond, there has been no shortage of pens ready to dishonor, denigrate, and (from the Muslim...

...Ashley Bates Tablet & Pen edited by Aslan Reza W. W. Norton & Company , 2011 Out of It by Dabbagh Selma Bloomsbury USA , 2012 Copyright © 2012 Tikkun magazine 2012 T he arab spring has challenged Western stereotypes of Middle Eastern civil...