Khamsin no.9 (1981):
Politics of Religion, Capitalism in Egypt

Editorial

2020-10-02T13:51:57+03:00October 10, 1981|Categories: Articles, Khamsin, Khamsin 9|

This issue of Khamsin continues the crucial debate on religion in the Middle East and its reactionary impact on politics in the region today.

Role of the Shi’i clergy in modern Iranian politics ‒ Azar Tabari [Afsaneh Najmabadi]

2020-07-11T12:52:25+03:00October 10, 1981|Categories: Articles, Khamsin 9|Tags: |

Analysis of the political evolution of Iran's Shi'ite clergy from the late 19th century to their seizure of state power in the February 1979 revolution, looking specifically at how they were able to sustain themselves in politics for so long and why, in the latter half of the 1970s, they experienced a militant revival.

Tragic heroes and victims in zionist ideology ‒ Toine van Teeffelen

2020-06-13T12:06:05+03:00October 10, 1981|Categories: Articles, Khamsin 9|Tags: |

A common image employed in interpreting the Israeli-Arab conflict views it in terms of a moral symmetry: both parties ‒ Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arab ‒ are in the right, both have a legitimate claim to the same country and are engaged in a tragic struggle with each other for possession of the land. But beneath the surface its basic message seems to be that the one party (Israel) is human and the other one is not.

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