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Education
On Orientalism and learning Arabic
بدي أهوة عربية وحمص No? How about this: Biddi ahwa arabia wa hummous. Now you can read it but it’s …
Is this a portrait of Fatima al-Fihri?
The featured image is an orientalist depiction of a woman painted by Jan Frans Portaels in 1877. As you may …
Can “confirmation bias” ever be beneficial?
What is confirmation bias? Confirmation bias is a tendency for individuals pursuing research or debate to (consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously) …
Responding to online racism, bigotry and Islamophobia
Disclaimer: May contain offensive language. I’m not sure why it always takes senseless tragedies for people’s true colours to come …
North African millennials need better education
In Islamic tradition, the first divine revelation received by our beloved Prophet Mohammed was ‘Read’, and this was repeated three …