The author criticizes Dearborn, Michigan Council President Susan Dabaja, who is running for 19th District Court judge, for her reaction to an editorial on the issue of her husband's federal conviction in a cigarette smuggling business. The author asserts that the publication has not only called out local officials who fall short of constituents's expectations, but also recognizes those who made…
The aim of this study is to identify the characteristics of localism in Jordan daily press through analyzing the contents of four national daily newspapers. In so doing, the essay tried to find out how daily press is immersed in local affairs and the features of the press treatment of local affairs in order to find out the editorial policies adopted by press toward local affairs. This study sho…
This article engages al-Kawakibi’s Taba’i‘ al-istibdad (The Characteristics of Oppression) as an instance of how Nahda writing dealt with the anxieties and ambivalence inherent in Ottoman Arab modernity. The Aleppine author was a political philosopher who universalized the Arab Muslim as a political subject. The article examines how al-Kawakibi defined “oppression” and “tyranny” a…