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Muanis Sinanović In 1882, Karl Marx traveled outside Europe for the first time and set foot in one of the colonized lands with which he had previously engaged only in theory. He landed on the coast of Algeria and soon after wrote to his daughter Eleanor, “For Mussulmans, there is no such thing as su
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Salma Amrou The United Nations has long been an instrument of Western hegemony: when it called for the partition of Palestinian land in 1947 through the UN General Assembly’s Resolution 181, when the United States used its disproportionate UN veto power multiple times throughout the past two years o
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Fadiah Nadwa Fikri In July this year, members of Parliament in the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. To enable this proscription, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tabled a draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 in the House of Commons, wh
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Cover Photo from Yuki Iwamura / AP Azeem Khan Since the heyday of European colonialism, Muslim reformists have argued for integration into the modern world and acceptance of the hegemonic order. In a similar vein, Muslims in the West are told to celebrate their successes and milestones: the first Mu
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Marwa Yousuf K. In the shadow of genocide, while Gaza burns and its skies bear witness to one of the most one-sided assaults in modern history, a Muslim man ran for mayor in the heart of empire and won. People celebrated, calling it a win for progress, diversity, and even justice, as if a scheduled
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Julia Kassem Trump’s November 6 summit with Central Asian leaders included several deals. The US President announced a $35 billion investment by Uzbekistan into ‘key American industries’ – though this wasn’t confirmed by either government, but did include investments in “geological surveying for cri
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In this exclusive interview, the Vox Ummah team discussed ongoing labor developments with the Iranian Federation of Gas Refinery Workers’ Associations (Bushehr Province) President Alireza Mirghaffari. The interview focuses on the gas workers’ strike, the workers’ orientation to imperialism, their su
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Sara Ather Scores of homes and properties belonging to Indian Muslims were demolished recently in the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, India. The controversy that led to these demolitions began in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where Muslim residents displayed a banner reading “I Love Muhammad” duri
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Suad Abdel Aziz Sudan is living through one of the worst crises in modern history. For over 900 days, civilians have endured unprecedented rates of mass killings, forced displacement, sexual violence and man-made famine at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a militia backed by the United A
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Mayowa Durosinmi “If Africa wants to take charge of itself, it must be entirely self-reliant, in every domain of life.” These were the exact choice of words profoundly uttered by a Sahelian in an interview with Comra when Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, the three founding members of the Alliance of S
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Roya Pour Bagher Over a century after British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour’s declaration initiated the settler-colonial project in Palestine, another British figure has emerged to salvage the sinking ship of Zionist Occupation. U.S. President Donald Trump is proposing that Tony Blair overs
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Mohammad Khan Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar — known to many as Abu Ibrahim — was martyred in combat in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. For Palestinians, his death marked not only the loss of Hamas’s top leader but the symbolic closing of a generational chapter in Gaza’s long history of resistance and