The horrifying scene of carnage in a Christian church in Alexandria, ending not only the passing year but also the lives of innocent people, was not just shocking to everyone in Egypt and the region, but also terrifying to some who began to (...)
American and Papal pretensions to be defenders of local religious minorities -- aided in the last three decades by an army of US-funded NGOs -- have contributed more to the situation of sectarianism, rather than "safeguarded" the Christian (...)
The reason for the ongoing "violence" in Israel and Palestine is not on account of Israeli colonialism at all but rather a direct result of mistranslation. Joseph Massad* provides an abridged lexicon of Zionist terminology
"Colonialism is peace; (...)
The progeny of Fayyad's plan will be the fetus of a Palestinian "state" that endorses Israel as a "biblical" Jewish state, postulates Joseph Massad*
The Palestinian Authority is pregnant! Indeed, it is the unelected and American-imposed Palestinian (...)
The Oslo agreement aimed to end the Palestinian quest for liberation and justice and continues to pose the most significant challenge to both, writes Joseph Massad*
The Oslo agreement did not only usher in a new era of Palestinian-Israeli relations (...)
The viciousness of Israel is testament to its knowing that Palestinians will always remain steadfast and defeat its past and present attempts to erase them, writes Joseph Massad*
One of the most difficult things to grasp in the modern history of (...)
Nadia Kamel's documentary on the Jews of Egypt, to be screened this week in Cairo, has won many international awards. Joseph Massad watched the film in New York and found the ingredients less baladi than assumed
While Zionism's atrocities against (...)
Pious words about promoting democracy in the Middle East are belied by the long history of US machinations, argues Joseph Massad*
As the enemies of the Palestinian people have been attacking them on every front -- Israel with its inquisition against (...)
The matter-of-factness with which the state of Israel claims the right to treat non-Jews as lesser animals is shocking and annuls any move towards peace, writes Joseph Massad*
Israel's struggle for peace is a sincere one. In fact, Israel desires to (...)
Joseph Massad* looks at the similarities between regime change in Chile and Palestine and condemns the collaboration between Fatah and Palestine's enemies
Before the United States government subcontracted the Chilean military to overthrow the (...)
The real rift in Palestinian society is between those fighting to preserve the class privileges of Oslo and their opponents who uphold the essentials of the Palestinian cause, writes Joseph Massad*
One of the most important measures that the Israeli (...)
As someone who has been facing the full brunt of the might of the pro-Israel lobby in the US, Joseph Massad* explains the deceit behind blaming the lobby for US policies towards the Palestinians and the Arab world
In the last 25 years, many (...)
Joseph Massad* writes on the implications of the Hamas funding dilemma
The story of the Palestinian national movement can only be told through the ways and means that different Arab and non-Arab governments have tried to control it. While the (...)
Steven Spielberg's Munich, writes Joseph Massad*, legitimises Israeli policy towards Palestinians while nodding away any moral qualms
"The best baklava is made by the Arabs in Jaffa," insists the Mossad case officer to his chief agent in charge of (...)
Having usurped political power the far right has now set its sight on sabotaging the academic world, writes Joseph Massad*
Targeting the university is the latest mission of right-wing forces who have hijacked not only political power and political (...)
Today the real victims of Western anti-Semitism are Arabs and Muslims, argues Joseph Massad*
There is much misunderstanding about the term "anti-Semitism" among Jews, Arabs, and European Christians. The term is bandied about as a description of (...)
Joseph Massad, assistant professor at Columbia University and Al-Ahram Weekly contributing writer, is the latest target in an ongoing witch-hunt launched by pro-Israel groups within American academia.Below is a statement he issued in response
The (...)
To subjugate the Iraqis the American military needed to feminise them. Joseph Massad* examines the cultural dynamic coupling imperial power to sexual conquest
The word "torture" seems to be a difficult word for Americans to utter when they are (...)
A crucial goal of Zionism since its inception was to transform European (and later other) Jews into European Christians culturally, while continuing to call them Jews. Joseph Massad* steps into the Benny Morris debate
In his recent interview with (...)
The Palestinian people cannot be legislated out of existence, writes Joseph Massad*
One of the most important changes that the Oslo process brought about was the de facto transformation, indeed the ultimate corruption, of the Palestine Liberation (...)
There is a place for us. Joseph Massad* ponders the life and work of a beloved friend and a great man
"Joseph, are you still sleeping, it's 8am already?" These are the first words I would hear upon picking up the phone three, four times a week. (...)
Physician heal thy self. Joseph Massad* comments on US/Israeli exhortations to the Arabs to overhaul their educational curricula
One of the bitter ironies of the last few years is the continuous calls issued from the United States, by official and (...)
Can 'the Arab street' be cleansed of the Palestinian cause? Joseph Massad* replies to Arab neo-liberals
Whenever I open an Arabic newspaper these days, I am accosted by columns written by neo-liberals expressing much worry about the "primacy" of the (...)
Joseph Massad* on the McCarthyism stalking American campuses
As I was reading one of the latest death threats I received via e-mail, I remembered the defamatory campaigns to which Edward Said has been subjected since the 1970s and which included the (...)