Most recent articles by Khaled Hroub
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Al Jazeera and Qatar
Accessories of the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring, a true popular uprising against decades of corruption and repression, owed its astonishingly rapid spread not least to the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, says media analyst Khaled Hroub
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The Arab Islamists and Erdogan's Turkish Islam
Secularism as a Protector of Religion
On his latest visit to Cairo, Turkey's prime minister Erdogan had a message for supporters of political Islam – that state should not get involved in the religion of the people, and should maintain the same distance to all religions. A slap in the face for unreconstructed opponents of secularism, says Khaled Hroub
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Minorities
Learned Intolerance
With his hostility towards religious minorities in the Islamic world and his wholesale dismissal of Muslim life in Europe, the Islamic scholar and television preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi is damaging dialogue and interreligious communication. A commentary by Khaled Hroub