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Articles written by Atalia Omer

Why are We Still Talking about the “Clash of Civilizations”? Anne Norton and the Search for the Andalusias of Modernity

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Atalia Omer
January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

Norton’s book illuminates the dynamics of sexual politics and how they operate to exclude, securitize, and otherize Muslims.

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Decolonizing the Practices of Religion in International Relations

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Atalia Omer
July 15, 2021

Lynch shows that the postsecular discovery of religion does not constitute a departure from the symbiosis of Christianity and secular modernity, but rather represents its perpetuation through other idioms and technologies.

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Eichmann Is Still in Jerusalem

Atalia Omer
June 22, 2021June 22, 2021

It is as if Eichmann’s own tactics and exclusionary and eliminative ideology are alive and well, only now being used against Palestinians.

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The Apocalypse is Human-Made: Playing with Fire from Al-Aqsa to Gaza

Atalia Omer
May 14, 2021August 25, 2022

The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious celebrations may well be lighting the fuse.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism is Bad for Jews, Israel, and Peace

Atalia Omer
January 21, 2021January 22, 2021

Antisemitism, like other forms of racism and bigotry, should be rejected by appeals to human rights and justice, not through the closure of critical thinking and blind acceptance of official Israeli state policies.

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Introduction to Policing Analogies

Series: Policing Analogies
Atalia Omer and Santiago Slabodsky
September 16, 2020September 25, 2020

The interrogation of normative representation and the creation of multi-racial and multi-gendered spaces are inadvertently rendered invisible and inaudible within the anti-analogizing stance.

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Beyond the Performance of Interfaith Solidarity

Series: Christchurch and Beyond
Atalia Omer
June 11, 2019August 23, 2019

Profound expressions of interfaith solidarity must disrupt the deep legacy of “faith” as an instrument of empire.

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The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion

Atalia Omer
October 30, 2018August 7, 2019

The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.

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Modernity as Theater of the Absurd

Series: Jerusalem
Atalia Omer
May 18, 2018October 4, 2018

The embassy ceremony in Jerusalem embodied the merging of the cynical, ideological, and eschatological as well as Islamophobia (orientalism), Zionism, and antisemitism.

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The Hybridities of Hijabi Barbie: A CM Book Symposium on “Brand Islam”

Series: Brand Islam
Atalia Omer
March 2, 2017

Widespread product “halalization” contributes to novel modes of self-described piety, yet implies a pro-consumptive “deregulation” of religion.

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