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• USA: Erasing History: The National Archives Is Destroying Records About Victims of Trump’s ICE Policies
  10 February 2020, by siawi3

  This was only the latest example of “a great and growing threat to our nation’s capacity to protect and learn from history.” The National Archives reportedly is allowing millions of documents, including many related to immigrants’ rights, to be expunged.

• Islams and Modernities
  15 February 2020, by siawi3

  Challenges ahistorical and erroneous conceptions of Islam and the West.

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  16 février 2020, par siawi3

  Les croyants musulmans peuvent critiquer leur religion mais pas l’insulter. Qu’en est il des non croyants ? Comment devons nous recevoir ceci, en France, aujourd’hui ?

• Postmodern Obscurantism and ’The Muslim Question’
  16 February 2020, by siawi3

  The all-too-human proclivity to short-sightedness colludes with political perspectives of the moment, to project a fragmentary image of the present instant into the essence of eternity, and to postulate Islam as the trans-historical protoplasm in the life of all Muslims.

• On this day in 1941: anti-Nazi February strike in Holland
  3 March 2020, by siawi3

  The famous February strike of 1941 was the only major protest in solidarity with Jews in Europe during the Nazi era, and has since been a symbol of resistance.

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  15 mars 2020, par siawi3
• Growing xenophobia against China in the midst of CoronaShock
  31 March 2020, by siawi3

  Quite correctly, the World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for “solidarity, not stigma” in a speech given on February 14, long before the virus had hit Europe or North America.

• Africa: Letters of resistance
  5 April 2020, by siawi3

  Edited by a group of prominent feminist researchers, ’Women Writing Africa’ constitutes and makes available one of the most extensive pan-African archives of women’s writing on the continent. The work of preserving (and in some cases translating) these texts and bringing them to a wider audience in the form of this anthology is an important contribution that highlights how feminist scholarship can challenge epistemic injustice.

• India: Waltz of the Flower
  14 April 2020, by siawi3

  As one of a handful of Baghdadi Jews living in Calcutta and perhaps the oldest of the lot, her story is not her story alone

• Coran et savants
  29 avril 2020, par siawi3

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