Over the past few years, we have understandably witnessed a lot of media attention for the war in the Gaza Strip, in which Israel killed more than 70,000 Palestinians after being attacked by a coalition of militant Palestinian groups that killed some 1,200 people in Israel. At the same time, two conflicts in broadly the…

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: The Expansions of Spaces of Killing and the Logic of Evisceration against Gazans (Palestine Talks Spring 2026 – 29/04) Palestine Talks Spring 2026 The Expansions of Spaces of Killing and the Logic of Evisceration against Gazans Prof. Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Global Chair in Law, Queen Mary University of London) Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian – a…

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In older works on Islamic history, it was not uncommon for academic authors to refer to certain trends within Islam as “orthodox”. While this label, which such studies invariably applied to (specific forms of) Sunnism as opposed to Mu‘tazilism (Gibb 1958; Hitti 1970), certainly has its uses in the study of Islam, its straightforward application…