Archive for July 12th, 2010
Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea”
In a brilliant reflection on Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, Nosheen Ali exposes how the book constructs a patronising and misleading narrative of terror in which the realities of Northern Pakistan and Muslim life-worlds are distorted through simplistic tropes of ignorance, backwardness and extremism, while histories of US geopolitics and [...]
German Terrorist Arrested in Pakistan
Spiegel Online | 29 June 2010 Arrest in Pakistan Conflict in Berlin over Handling of a German Jihadist Germany's Foreign and Interior Ministries are at odds over how to handle German jihadists who wish to return home. Last week's arrest of a German-born extremist by Pakistani police has left some wondering whether Germany has passed up a [...]
