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Tracking flows of people, news and ideas as they interact with secular and religious dynamics.

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  • Our Jerusalem of Unspoken Stories

    For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly....


  • Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

    Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?...


  • Producing Motherhood? Uterus Transplantation for Infertility

    Uterus transplant makes visible the ways in which social expectations and ideas about the normative body interact with the ethical ends of medicine....


  • Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland

    Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress....


  • From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

    The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps ev...


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Global Currents Articles

Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

Gil Hochberg
January 26, 2019February 20, 2019

Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?

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Madrasa Discourses Equip Tomorrow’s Islamic Scholars with Scientific Literacy

Aysha Khan
December 4, 2018February 1, 2024

The Madrasa Discourses project connects madrasa graduates with the scientific and philosophical questions traditional madrasas often skip.

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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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2018 World Cup and Multicultural Belgium

Nadia Fadil
July 12, 2018October 4, 2018

It is precisely this absence of a unified national project that allows for a triumphant recuperation of national symbols by ethnic minorities.

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Photo Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gallery View, Medieval Sculpture Hall.

The 2018 Fashion Exhibit at New York’s Met: Revealing Catholics to Themselves

John Seitz
June 13, 2018January 27, 2024

The collection offers Catholics a chance to see themselves anew in a contemporary context of spiritual, sexual, and gender fluidity.

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Modernity as Theater of the Absurd

Series: Jerusalem
Atalia Omer
May 18, 2018February 1, 2024

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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Stand Up To Islamophobia One of a series of rallys around the UK in response to hate crimes against Muslims.

“Love” and “Punishment” for Muslim Others

Timothy Gutmann
April 17, 2018September 18, 2018

What recognitions and forms of mutuality are necessary for common life amid plurality?

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Our Jerusalem of Unspoken Stories

Series: Jerusalem
Stephanie Saldaña
January 17, 2018January 19, 2018

For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly.

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Jerusalem and the Soul of the Abrahamic Traditions

Series: Jerusalem
Mahan Mirza
January 12, 2018February 1, 2024

It is a harsh and bitter irony that the holiest sites of the Abrahamic faiths are either abodes of exclusivism or of strife and conflict.

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Christian Zionism, American Modernity, and the Trump Declaration on Jerusalem

Series: Jerusalem
Robert O. Smith
January 8, 2018March 14, 2025

Christian Zionists justify America’s myth of sacrificial violence, enabling President Trump’s efforts to bend the world to his will.

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