Articles — The Revealer

Arakan, Displaced

December 17, 2012

Conflict in western Burma's Arakan state has displaced thousands of Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Arakanese. From the Burmese...

Sweeping Air

November 21, 2012

From Varanasi, India, Meera Subramanian’s inner pragmatist ponders the meaning of strength and devotion as she witnesses the Hindu...

Iyad Ag-Ghali, 2012: Running Out of Road

November 15, 2012

By Joe McKnight Part 4 of a four part series comparing the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler,...

Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali

November 8, 2012

Part three of Joe McKnight's series on the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler, and Iyad ag-Ghali, a...

San Pedro's Key

October 25, 2012

Special for The Revealer: Alexander Zaitchik travels to Ecuador where he experiences the highs and lows of a local...

Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali

October 23, 2012

Childhood and Exile: Rebel Politics and the Politics of Hunger. This is the second in a series comparing...

Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali

October 16, 2012

By Joe McKnight One name kept repeating itself: Iyad ag-Ghali, leader of Ansar Dine. It seems to me his...

Decibels and Debate: Unifying Egypt's Call to Prayer

September 24, 2012

by Maurice Chammah The call to prayer was not just a reminder of religious extremism. For these elite Egyptians,...

All Together? The Legacy of Egypt's Jews

September 17, 2012

by Maurice Chammah At first I did a double take, seeing the word ‘Weinstein’ in simple block letters one...

The Bullet That Doesn't Hit You

September 11, 2012

By Maurice Chammah Nasser had...wanted the state to protect journalists from the market, but could that be done without...

Jewish Enough? The Saturday Oil-Pressers

July 24, 2012

by Janaki Challa The largest Jewish community in India...are descendents of persecuted Jews from Galilee who were...

Of Shrines and Syncretists

July 20, 2012

by Alex Thurston Teju Cole analyzes the destruction of the shrines by analogy: Mali is premodern Europe; Mali is...

The First Draft of History: Wire Agency Reporting in Egypt

July 2, 2012

by Maurice Chammah The editors weren’t pleased. It was too complex...It would be easier, they decided, to frame the...

In the Shadows of Syria: Defusing Sectarian Tensions in Lebanon

June 25, 2012

by Irina Papkova For two weeks, Lebanon lived on the knife edge of a sectarian civil war. And here...

Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy

June 12, 2012

By Austin Dacey The Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards was meeting to address “gaps” in...

Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Policies and Conclusions

June 6, 2012

by Alex Thurston Government-run Islamic schools, then, are to be a source of “counter-radicalization” as well as a means...

The Dalai Lama is Home

May 31, 2012

By Becky Rynor I was looking for the chink in that unfailingly optimistic armor, a moment of emotion from the...

Feature

Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target

May 18, 2012

By Alex Thurston This is the fourth post in a series on Islamic education in Northern Nigeria. The first post...

Feature

"Traditional" and Reformist Practices: Advanced Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria

May 15, 2012

This post is the third in a series on Muslim schooling in Northern Nigeria. The first post gave an...

Feature

Northern Nigeria: Qur'anic Schooling and the Almajirai

May 1, 2012

by Alex Thurston This is the second post in a series on Muslim education in Northern Nigeria. Read the first...

Feature

Rolling the Dice: The Orthodox Church's "Bet" on Putin

April 26, 2012

by Irina Papkova The recent Russian elections have highlighted the complicated relationship between the Orthodox Church with both state...

Review

Riot in the Cathedral

March 30, 2012

A review of The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics, by Irina Papkova. Oxford University Press, 2011. By Sean Guillory In late February,...

Feature

The Pope Has Left the Island

March 28, 2012

By Nora Connor Pope...

Progress and Rat Poison in Morocco

March 19, 2012

Some rights gains are never permanent. By Amy Levin As the climate...

Arakan, Displaced

Sweeping Air

Iyad Ag-Ghali, 2012: Running Out of Road

Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali

San Pedro's Key

Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali

Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali

Decibels and Debate: Unifying Egypt's Call to Prayer

All Together? The Legacy of Egypt's Jews

The Bullet That Doesn't Hit You

Jewish Enough? The Saturday Oil-Pressers

Of Shrines and Syncretists

The First Draft of History: Wire Agency Reporting in Egypt

In the Shadows of Syria: Defusing Sectarian Tensions in Lebanon

Calvin's Geneva? The New International Discourse of Blasphemy

Schooling Muslims in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Policies and Conclusions

The Dalai Lama is Home

Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target

"Traditional" and Reformist Practices: Advanced Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria

Northern Nigeria: Qur'anic Schooling and the Almajirai

Rolling the Dice: The Orthodox Church's "Bet" on Putin

Riot in the Cathedral

The Pope Has Left the Island

Progress and Rat Poison in Morocco

discover more

Explore 21 years and 4,096 articles of

The Revealer

discover more