Middle Eastern Politics
02.11.2017
The Middle East Upheavals: The Necessities of a New Social Criticism
Understanding power dynamics in the Middle East requires Europe to beware of – and shift – its Eurocentric lens.
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The Middle East’s New Winners and Losers
“War,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, is the “father of all things.” In view of the bloody – indeed barbaric – events in the Middle East (and in Iraq and Syria in particular), one might be tempted to agree, even though such ideas no longer seem to have a place in the postmodern worldview of today’s Europe.
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