Showing results for "Digital Middle East" in Philosophy

Imagine a war without battlefields. There are no uniforms. Civilians and combatants are indistinguishable. Homes, schools, hospitals, and religious buildings are used as command and communication centers, and for the warehousing of weapons. Apartment rooftops are launching pads; the civilians who live inside . . . human shields. There are over 300 miles of reinforced tunnels, all outfitted with weapons and passageways for terrorists to take hostages and travel freely.

El Akkad exhibe y denuncia sin paliativos la vergonzosa realidad, a menudo teñida de la más abyecta complicidad gubernamental, de cuanto se nos cuenta en Occidente, y de lo que comporta vivir sometidos al caprichoso y desalmado yugo neocolonialista que ejercen los Estados Unidos de América con la incondicional ayuda de Reino Unido, Francia y Alemania. Este punzante y valiente alegato desgrana el proceso de una dolorosa toma de conciencia ante una encrucijada moral que nos obliga a adoptar un compromiso ineludible en estos tiempos tan abominables.

The death toll in Gaza continues to rise―a cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism. What remains of the theories we use to understand our world? With lyrical and lucid fury, Hamid Dabashi exposes the racist roots of Western philosophy, demanding that listeners overcome its pernicious phantom of relevance. Rather than perceiving "the West" as giving carte blanche to Israel, Dabashi insists that Israel must be understood as its quintessence.