- Zachary Braiterman is Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. His specialization is modern Jewish thought and philosophical aesthetics. Facebook | Twitter | Academia.edu.
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Tag Archives: Syria
Syria (The End)
As Russian and Iranian-Hezbollah backed Syria regime forces finish off the rebellion against a dictator, all we do is watch the slaughter as it unfolds towards the end. Michael Kimmelman posts these very powerful images and video and so-so reflections … Continue reading
Intersections (Jewish, Muslim, Arab, Israeli)
Nicolas Kristof in this week’s New York Times, which you can read here, writes about a teenager escaping ISIS controlled territory. The unexpected shout-out to an Israeli NGO offering assistance to refugees landing in Lesbos makes a strong point about … Continue reading
Catastrophe Affect & Human Values (Responding to the Middle East Today)
I’m not sure about these confessional remarks. On the one hand, the thoughts reflected here cut what is probably too wide a swath through a highly reified and mediated conceptualizations of “Islam” and “the Middle East,” while reflecting my own … Continue reading
International Bystander (Syria)
This in the Guardian. As Russia begins intentionally to bomb non-ISIS targets in Syria, I am ashamed to be an American. It’s not for me to provide definite answers. I’m just a concerned U.S. citizen who happens to spend a … Continue reading
Refugees & Population Transfer (European Ethics & Middle Eastern Politics)
As often as not, it’s a mistake to confuse ethics and politics. But here’s where the politics and ethics of the current refugee crisis will undoubtedly intersect. There’s no way European and American moral conscience won’t prove as flimsy as … Continue reading
Disaster Aesthetics (Syria)
Abstract and beautiful, the satellite images published here in the Atlantic show the devastating scale of the chaotic free-for-all in Syria that mars that country’s natural and urban landscapes. Without a human figure, they indicate from a distance a destructive human trace. … Continue reading
Telling Stories — Obama & The Banality (of Fighting) Evil
Politically, maybe it’s true and there’s nothing the Unites States can do or wants to do in the world today. But the words used by President Obama and his spokespeople to save moral face don’t square with the desperate human … Continue reading
The Left in the Lurch — Syria Palestine Israel
Fairly regularly I used to enjoy reading Palestinian activist Ramzy Baroud at the Palestine Chronicle. But I stopped reading after awhile because the perspectives seemed to me to be one-sided, monotonous, and predictable. I read him now at Al-Arabiya English … Continue reading
Bubbles & Circles — Scarlett Johansson Syria Soda Stream
I’m of mixed mind about the rolling brouhaha regarding movie star Scarlett Johansson’s transformation into the public face of SodaStream and “Apartheid Israel.” If there is a larger and genuine political meaning to what can be viewed as a little … Continue reading
Better than Bombs (The Fall of the Assad Regime) (Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed)
Much better than bombs. Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed is no dove or accomodator when writing about Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Quite the opposite. Here he is writing in the Saudi based Asharq Al Awsat (English). Backed up by … Continue reading
