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Bookmark or Share- Asad Noor: Why Western Islamists Want to Murder MeWatch on. Asad Noor, human rights activist, former Muslim, and counter-Islamist fled his native Bangladesh due to death threats for his statements about the Quran and Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Now in hiding, Noor spoke to a September 8th Middle East Forum Webinar (video) in an interview with Dexter Van Zile, managing editor of the Middle ...
- Assessing English Translations of the Qur’an - Middle East ForumA Jewish convert to Islam, the former Leopold Weiss (1900-1992) sought to depart from the traditional exegetic approaches and reflect independent thought. Asad, an Austrian journalist, was well-versed in the Jewish and Christian scriptures and brought this knowledge to bear in the form of erudite footnotes.
- Will Bashshar al-Asad Rule? - Middle East ForumFormally speaking, yes, and he did so very easily. In an accelerated process following the death of Asad - indeed, on the very day he died - the Syrian parliament changed the Syrian constitution to enable Bashshar (34 years old) to become president (the constitution had required 40 years).
- Ambiguities of Domination - Middle East ForumIn 1994, the American journalist Milton Viorst published a book based on his travels through the Middle East in which he stated, after repeated visits to Damascus, that President Hafiz al-Asad “shunned the creation of a personality cult.” 1 Likewise, the scholar Raymond Hinnebusch devoted a two-volume study to the Syrian system and, in Wedeen’s words, “he writes as if Asad’s cult [of ...
- Hafiz al-Asad Discovers Islam - Middle East ForumHafiz al-Asad Discovers Islam. Eyal Zisser is a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan center, and lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. For many years, the Ba’th regime in Syria has served as the guiding light of secularism for the whole Middle East. Its non-religious world view and its bitter ...
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