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Tarek Kahlaoui

Tarek Kahlaoui
Location
New Jersey,
Title
Rutgers, Assistant Professor
Bio
Tarek Kahlaoui, Ph.D., completed his dissertation on "The Depiction of the Mediterranean in Islamic Cartography" (11th -16th centuries), and currently teaches courses on Islamic art and architecture and Islamic history. Kahlaoui also comments regularly in Arabic and English on the events related to the Islamic World in Al-Hayat, Aljazeera.net, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Arab News, and Middle East Online, and writes a weekly column for the Qatari newspaper Al-Arab. He was also invited as a special guest on the weekly program Minbar Al-Jazeera of Al-Jazeera channel. He comments on general topics on Islamic art and archeology in the Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, and on wider topics related to contemporary Islam in the Lebanese magazine Al-Adab. Kahlaoui also writes two blogs on Islamic art history and cartography, http://arts-of-islam.blogspot.com/, and http://islamic-cartography.blogspot.com/.

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JANUARY 20, 2011 11:31PM

A Brief Account of the Tunisian Revolution’s Media Branch

 

A Brief Account (from my perspective) of the Tunisian Revolution’s Media Branch

 

[Originally posted on my FB profile:  http://www.facebook.com/TarekKahlaoui]

 

When in December 17th Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid no one thought that it wo… Read full post »

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MAY 20, 2010 12:53AM

Drawing the Prophet Muhammad is not the issue

My 1st article in the United Nations' "global expert" website was a comment on the ongoing controversy about "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day":

"The irritated reactions of mainstream Muslim Americans against the ‘Everybody Draw Muhammad Day’ are understandable and expected. Yet they… Read full post »

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MARCH 1, 2010 10:58AM

The Right to Choose for Arab Bloggers: Jail or Censorship?

I just heard this so I may come back and update few things. Clearly blogging in the Arab World involves the right to choose that is between censorship or jail.

An Egyptian blogger (Ahmed Abd Al-Fattah who writes in his blog "What Went Wrong With You My Country?" in Arabic)… Read full post »

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MARCH 1, 2010 12:35AM

The "Black and White" Newsline (Example 1: 60 Minutes)

Again I had to go through the torture of a news story where the price of a simplistic narrative had to be taking a major historical issue very lightly.

I must say first I'd choose "60 Minutes" rather than any other major news program, if I have to choose. Yet its… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 28, 2010 1:36PM

The "Our Sins and the Wrath of Angry Gods" Story

I just read the satiric piece (here)  by the Desperate Blogger, which was not appreciated by some commentators (for including fictional statements). Certainly prior statements by Robertson seem to fuel such reactions and already blurr the lines seperating reality from fiction. 

The "our sin… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 28, 2010 11:48AM

Misunderstanding the Minaret

A revised version of this article was published Dec 12 (09) in Arab News.

The controversy on the Swiss vote against the construction of Islamic minarets seems to emphasize political and constitutional issues notably the re-structuring of many right-wing parties around the issue of a “European-… Read full post »

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