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Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Works

Book Review

Examining the global impact of American culinary imperialism

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Safar 19, 14372015-08-01

FAST FOOD NATION: WHAT THE ALL-AMERICAN MEAL IS DOING TO THE WORLD by Eric Schlosser. London: Penguin Books, 2002. Pp. 386. Pbk. £7.99.

Book Review

Revealing the fictions of American supremacy

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Akhirah 12, 14362015-04-01

STUPID WHITE MEN (AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE STATE OF THE NATION) by Michael Moore. Pub: Penguin Books, London, 2002. Pp: 281. Pbk: £7.99.

Special Reports

Moves to ‘reform’ education provide opportunity to escape Western-style factory schooling

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Ramadan 11, 14302009-09-01

Educationists in the West are presently in the middle of a intense debate about purpose and means of providing education. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ argues that this provides an opportunity for Muslims...

Special Reports

How the West tries to use Islam and terrorism to serve its own priorities

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Ramadan 11, 14302009-09-01

Terrorism is one of the most widely used words in the world today. It also has numerous meanings. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses the way the West uses the word and exploits the phenomenon...

முஸ்லிம் மனதைக் காலனித்துவ நீக்கம் செய்தல் The intellectual challenge facing the Islamic movement: decolonizing the Muslim mind (Tamil)

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Ramadan 11, 14302009-09-01

இன்று ‘மூன்றாம் உலகு’ என்றழைக்கப்படும் நிலப்பகுதிகளை ஐரோப்பிய-அமெரிக்க சக்திகள் பலாத்காரமாகப் பௌதிக ரீதியில் பிடித்துவைத்து, நம்பவொண்ணா அளவில் அவற்றின் வளங்களைச் சுரண்டிவந்த ஒரு வரலாற்றுக் காலகட்டமே காலனித்துவம் என்று பெரும்பாலும் தற்போது புரிந்துகொள்ளப் பட்டிருக்கிறது. மேற்கத்திய சக்திகளின் இந்த அமைப்பு ரீதியான கொள்ளை ஸ்பெயினிலிருந்து துவங்கியது.

Islamic Movement

The intellectual challenge facing the Islamic movement: decolonizing the Muslim mind (Reprint)

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Shawwal 20, 14282007-11-01

Few Muslims doubt that one of the major tasks facing us is the reversal of the impact of colonialism on our societies. However, the extent of this impact is seldom noticed. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses the need to decolonize our minds.

Special Reports

Islam, consumerism and the environmental crisis (Re-print)

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Ula' 05, 14272006-06-01

Materialist consumerism has become one of the defining characteristics of western/modern societies. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses how the problem can be addressed by Islam’s ethical and moral framework

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Book Review

Analysing the signs of the downfall of the American empire

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Sha'ban 27, 14262005-10-01

After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd. Translated by C. Jon Delogu. London: Constable, 2004. Pp. 243. £8.99. By Yusuf al-Khabbaz As American neo-conservative academics, policy experts, government officials and corporate media continue to proclaim the "new American century," those on the American left lament the emerging imperial power of the US. Although they are viciously opposed to one another on many points, both parties agree that America is "the sole superpower" in the world today, and that the emerging American empire is an inevitability to be either celebrated or decried.

Features

Remembering the US’s atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 14262005-08-01

August marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the nuclear era with the US;s use of atomic bombs against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ, who was in Hiroshima for the commemorations, discusses those momentus events and their implications.

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Features

The legacy of hatred toward Muslims underpinning American imperialism

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Ula' 24, 14262005-07-01

Although America prides itself as a open-minded and inclusive society, its policies towards the Muslim world are in fact deeply imbued with imperialist attitudes. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses the American legacy of hate.

Features

Neo-liberalism and education

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Rabi' al-Awwal 22, 14262005-05-01

Education is a central part of the West’s agenda for re-shaping the Muslim world along its own lines. As such, it plays a prominent role in the many institution as and programs by which the West aims to persuade Muslims to acquiese to their own Westernization, writes YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ.

Features

The intellectual impoverishment of modern academia

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Safar 22, 14262005-04-01

The problem of the Eurocentric nature of most modern education is now widely accepted, and there are numerous efforts to try to address it by developing indigenous forms of knowledge. But this is only one of many problems in contemporary Western academic discourse. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses.

Features

Evaluating and redefining western academic disciplines

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Dhu al-Qa'dah 20, 14252005-01-01

The academic disciplines through which most people study and understand modern life are almost entirely based on Western historical experiences and the needs opf western societies. They thus remain replete with cultural and political implications that few understand. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses efforts to criticaly redefine these disciplines.

Special Reports

Iran, the WTO and the decline of national politics

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Shawwal 18, 14252004-12-01

​Islamic Iran’s relations with international organizations such as the UN have been among the most criticised elements of its foreign policy...

Islamic Movement

The intellectual challenge facing the Islamic movement: decolonizing the Muslim mind

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Sha'ban 16, 14252004-11-01

Few Muslims doubt that one of the major tasks facing us is the reversal of the impact of colonialism on our societies. However, the extent of this impact is seldom noticed. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses the need to decolonize our minds...

Features

Supersized Americans and the toxic food environment

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Sha'ban 16, 14252004-10-01

As Muslims around the world prepare for Ramadan, there is also increasing awareness among non-Muslims of the effects of the sort of diet promoted by profit-seeking Western multinationals. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ examines the recent movie 'Super Size Me'

Features

Clothing, colonization and spiritual identity

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Rajab 16, 14252004-09-01

Clothing must be among the most important but least analyzed sites of colonization. The works that examine the connection between colonization and clothing concentrate almost entirely on the material dimension of dress...

Special Reports

Lessons from Japan for the US occupation of Iraq

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Akhirah 14, 14252004-08-01

The US’s claim to be bringing freedom and progress to Iraq is often justified by comparisons with its administration of Japan at the end of the second world war...

Special Reports

The Zionist diatribe underpinning American attitudes towards Muslims and Arabs

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Ula' 13, 14252004-07-01

Recent US policies towards Muslims and the Muslim world, and particularly their treatment of Muslim prisoners in Iraq, Guantanamo and elsewhere, reveal a deep fear and contempt of Muslims...

Features

The problem of American propaganda in the Muslim world

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Rabi' al-Thani 13, 14252004-06-01

Even as it acts more and more aggressively against Muslims around the world, the US has launched a massive propaganda campaign in the Muslim world...

Features

Muslims and the social impact of television

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Rabi' al-Awwal 11, 14252004-05-01

Television has now become the primary mode of entertainment and information for millions of people worldwide...

Features

Muslims and the problem of modern entertainment

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Safar 11, 14252004-04-01

An increasing proportion of popular entertainment in Muslim countries now comes from the West, particularly the US. YUSUF KHABBAZ discusses whether such entertainment is proper for Muslim families and societies.

Features

Islam, consumerism and the environmental crisis

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Muharram 10, 14252004-03-01

Materialist consumerism has become one of the defining characteristics of western/modern societies. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses how the problem can be addressed by Islam’s ethical and moral framework.

Special Reports

The misdirected goals of textbook revision

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Ramadan 18, 14252004-02-01

​Among the topics discussed at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting in Kuwait in December was that of textbook revision...

Features

Islam and the contemporary crisis of humanity

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Dhu al-Qa'dah 08, 14242004-01-01

YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ argues that the impact of modern technological society on the lives of individual human beings has been such as to create a “crisis of humanity” in modern societies, and discusses ways it can be countered by Muslims.

Features

Islam, culture and identity: towards an understanding of culture

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Shawwal 07, 14242003-12-01

​YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses modern and traditional Islamic ways of understanding culture, with particular reference to the challenges facing Muslims in today’s global, multicultural and West-dominated society.

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Book Review

Damning critique of role and nature of schooling in modern Western societies

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Dhu al-Qa'dah 17, 14362003-09-01

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich. Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd., London, 2002 (first published in 1971 by Calder and Boyars). Pp. 116. Pbk. £8.95.

Special Reports

Fundamental flaws undermining al-Jazeera’s attempt to revolutionise Arab media

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Akhirah 18, 14242003-08-16

Since its creation in the 1990s, al-Jazeera Satellite Television has become a darling of parts of the Western establishment, hailed as a voice of modernity and democracy in the Middle East. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ asks why...

Book Review

Provocative thoughts on the nature of the West after the turn of the millennium

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Muharram 29, 14242003-04-01

THE VITAL ILLUSION by Jean Baudrillard. The Wellek Library Lectures. Pub: New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. 102. Hbk. Price: US$18.

Special Reports

The politics of suicide and self-sacrifice

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Shawwal 27, 14232003-01-01

​The operations of so-called suicide bombers against the Israeli occupiers of Palestine have come under severe attack in the West. Yusuf al-Khabbaz compares their nature with the epidemic of suicide sweeping through America and other Western countries.

Features

The role of television in the spread of consumerism and voyeurism

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Rajab 09, 14232002-09-16

The television has become one of the most essential and ubiquitous items of a modern lifestyle, but few people are aware of the role it plays in shaping society. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses its link with consumerism

Features

Aspects of globalization and the global protests against it

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Akhirah 23, 14232002-09-01

Globalization has become one of the buzz words of our era. But it means many different things to different people, and is the focus of an intense and global protest movement. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses.

Features

The art of sound in the world of Islam

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 14232002-08-01

The Islamic rules and regulations governing the listening of music are among the most misunderstood in Islam. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses the issue...

Features

Sharing the profits of crime: why the US feels such an affinity with the zionists

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Muharram 18, 14232002-04-01

The Jews are pillaging Palestine, and the world is looking away. A few feeble-minded declarations and toothless resolutions notwithstanding, no one with the capability to say or do anything of substance seems to care.

Features

American culture and the globalization of mental illness

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Dhu al-Hijjah 03, 14222002-02-16

American culture is behaving like a disease agent and poisoning human minds. Recent studies published in a variety of influential Western medical journals indicate an alarming increase in mental illness worldwide.

Special Reports

New report sheds fresh light on George W. Bush’s tainted election victory

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Dhu al-Qa'dah 18, 14222002-02-01

George W. Bush’s inauguration as president a year ago followed one the most controversial and tainted elections in US history. A year later, with all attention turned to the ‘war against terrorism’, he hopes to be remembered as a great president. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ has a better memory...

Features

The dogs of Western civilization are barking again

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Dhu al-Qa'dah 02, 14222002-01-16

On a recent lecture tour of the Arab Muslim world, a celebrity from the American Muslim lecture circuit claimed that "civilization" was like a "caravan" and that different peoples have led the caravan.

Book Review

Provocative thoughts on Western modernity at the millennium

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Shawwal 17, 14222002-01-01

​THE VITAL ILLUSION by Jean Baudrillard. The Wellek Library Lectures. Pub: New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. 102. Hbk. Price: US$18.

Book Review

Developing alternatives to the western pattern of “modern” education

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Rajab 29, 14222001-10-16

NON-WESTERN EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE

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