Spring Coming to Palestine

More than 2000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are demanding respect for their dignity, their innocence, and their humanity. Many have been arrested on mere suspicion; others for no valid reason. “Administrative detention” has become accepted practice (as have “enhanced interrogation techniques”) in Israel’s fine and exemplary democracy. Women, men and even children can be arrested without charge, without warrant and held for six (...)
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Thaer’s letter to his daughter Lamar

“My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to be happy with. It is not your fault; this is our destiny as Palestinian people to have our lives and the lives of our children taken away from us, to be apart from each other and to have a miserable life. Nothing is complete in our lives because of this unjust occupation (...)
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How Islamic is the Arab Spring?

“How Islamic is the Arab Spring?” “How Islamic is the Arab Spring?” The Körber Foundation, the German-Arab Friendship Society (DAFG) and the Allianz Foundation Forum invited Tariq Ramadan, one of Europe’s leading Muslim intellectuals and currently Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford, and Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Parliament, to talk about this topic. The (...)
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Islamic Education in The UK: A View to The Future

A discussion on the Islamic Education in the UK: A View to the Future organised by the Islamic Society of the University of Oxford, held at Jesus College, Oxford, on 6th of March, 2012. Professor Tariq Ramadan gave a lecture on this important topic. Professor Ramadan at the very start said that we must start with three points: the main framework, objectives, principles and then end of objectives. “We are attempting to promote the principles framework and the (...)
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The French election: what now?

In the tense final days of the French presidential election campaign the candidates’ words have proved revealing. Between the two rounds, the face-off between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande saw the two men caught in a downward spiral of attacks and counter-attacks designed to win over the voters of the Front National (FN). The television debate between the two confirmed what most people suspected: on immigration-related questions there was little difference (...)
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Tariq Ramadan

Spring Coming to Palestine
ARTICLES - 15 May 2012
More than 2000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are demanding respect for their dignity, their innocence, and their humanity. Many have been arrested on mere suspicion; others for no valid reason. “Administrative detention” has become accepted practice (as have “enhanced interrogation techniques”) in Israel’s fine and exemplary democracy. Women, men and even (...)
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Thaer’s letter to his daughter Lamar
ARTICLES - 15 May 2012
“My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to be happy with. It is not your fault; this is our destiny as Palestinian people to have our lives and the lives of our children taken away from us, to be apart from each other and to have a (...)
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How Islamic is the Arab Spring?
NEWS - 9 May 2012
“How Islamic is the Arab Spring?” “How Islamic is the Arab Spring?” The Körber Foundation, the German-Arab Friendship Society (DAFG) and the Allianz Foundation Forum invited Tariq Ramadan, one of Europe’s leading Muslim intellectuals and currently Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford, and Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the (...)
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Islamic Education in The UK: A View to The Future
NEWS - 9 May 2012
A discussion on the Islamic Education in the UK: A View to the Future organised by the Islamic Society of the University of Oxford, held at Jesus College, Oxford, on 6th of March, 2012. Professor Tariq Ramadan gave a lecture on this important topic. Professor Ramadan at the very start said that we must start with three points: the main framework, objectives, principles and then end of (...)
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The French election: what now?
ARTICLES - 6 May 2012
In the tense final days of the French presidential election campaign the candidates’ words have proved revealing. Between the two rounds, the face-off between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande saw the two men caught in a downward spiral of attacks and counter-attacks designed to win over the voters of the Front National (FN). The television debate between the two confirmed what most (...)
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France, Europe and the West
ARTICLES - 1 May 2012
The presidential election in France throws a cold, clear light not only French political reality, but on trends that are working their way through Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. An identity crisis of unprecedented scope afflicts the West, a crisis that has called its status, its dominance, its values and even its sense of itself into question—and poisoned social debate (...)
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VOTE FOR NICOLAS SARKOZY!
ARTICLES - 28 April 2012
While currently in Berlin, I have met with German political figures and members of the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Spellbound I listened as they expounded on the power and glorious future of the Sarkozy-Merkel axis, and on the opportunity it represents for Europe. The alluring image of an all-conquering Germany that so fascinates French president Nicolas Sarkozy brought home to me (...)
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France’s defining vision of change
ARTICLES - 18 April 2012
The country wields deceptive political concepts today. If it wants to preserve its theoretical values, it needs to modify its political practices Some residue of France’s universalistic and secular ambitions, once colonialism’s driving force — in the name of the country’s “civilising mission,” and in defence of its economic and geopolitical interests (...)
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When the French Government Muzzles Free Speech
ARTICLES - 4 April 2012
I’d become accustomed to it over the last twenty years; I had always hoped things would improve. Events have proven me wrong. France’s political class has changed little in the last two decades; in fact, it seems to be regressing rapidly. For years now, conference organizers have told me of pressure exerted by the French government’s intelligence services, of blackmail, of (...)
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Arabs and cultural emancipation
ARTICLES - 3 April 2012
Genuine liberation can be achieved through the celebration of and respect for languages, memories and heritage of all Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom. Though historical (...)
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