2003 - QeRN

Georgy Galloway talks about Conviction and Duty

From the archive (2003): George Galloway on conviction and duty — the anti-war argument as actually delivered, not as later memory softened it.

Archive: Geopolitics

Blaming Collaborator Syndrome

From the archive (2003): on the psychology of collaboration under occupation — and why institutional self-reliance is the durable form of agency.

Institutions: International Order

OIC Intra-trade Vital (courtesy theStar.com.my)

PUTRAJAYA: There is a vital need for meaningful and reliable information directories for intra-trade to flourish among the 57 member countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said. The Prime Minister said information directories like the OIC trade directory, released in conjunction with

Institutions: Civil Society

Alfred Nobel Forgiven!

From the archive (2003): a Nobel Peace Prize celebrated — and the lesson that recognition follows institution-builders, decades after the building starts.

Archive: Geopolitics

Gaining perspective ’ recent historical events

From the archive (2003): placing the era’s upheavals in historical perspective — the method that leads to this site’s present thesis, that institutions are what survive.

Identity: Dialogue

The Trouble with Islam: A Discussion

From the archive (2003): the Manji debate — internal critique processed defensively, and the scholarly depth that metabolises it on the merits.

Identity: Dialogue

A glimpse into the versatility of Islam

From the archive (2003): Islam’s versatility across cultures — adaptability that was always the work of scholars and institutions, era by era.

Institutions: Governance

Religion, Nationalism and Ummah in Islam

It is without doubt that without the rule of law (judicially enforced or socially enforced), human society would not exist. It is also a fact that most of the man-made law of this world owes itself to religious laws in one way or another. Laws against stealing, cannibalism, rape, incest,

Knowledge: Scholarship

Towards a Progressive Islam on Our Own Terms, by Dr. Farish Noor

Tarek Fatah writes: Dr. Farish Noor is the former Secretary-General of JUST–The Malaysian based “International Movement for a Just World. Dr. Noor, a political scientist and human rights activist, has taught at the Institute for Islamic Studies, Frie University of Berlin and is currently, associate fellow at the Institute

Archive: War on Terror

Did Bush Deceive Us in His Rush to War?

From the archive (2003): Robert Scheer asking, weeks after Baghdad fell, whether the case for war was honest — contemporaneous scepticism the record later vindicated.

Archive: Iraq

US accused of plans to loot Iraq antiques

From the archive (2003): the warning about Iraq’s antiquities, published days before the looting — given in time, not acted on.

Archive: Iraq

History? What History?

From the archive (2003): Scheer on Baghdad’s looted museums and the guarded oil ministry — priorities stated in actions, and the case for institutions that hold memory.

Archive: Iraq

Plunder of Iraq Culture Treasures - US Adv. Panel resigns

From the archive (2003): Iraq’s looted cultural treasures and the advisers who resigned in protest — what is lost when a civilisation’s working memory goes unguarded.

Archive: Iraq

Subject IQ Test on international politics

From the archive (2003): the pre-Iraq-war ‘IQ test’ — an artefact of information scarcity, from before the problem inverted into flood.

Archive: Iraq

War Times: racist massacre

From the archive (2003): on the eve of the Iraq invasion — the anger and the accuracy, kept together because honest archives keep both.

Archive: Iraq

Cook's resignation speech

From the archive (2003): Robin Cook’s resignation speech against the Iraq war — institutional conscience exercised in proper form, preserved since the week it was given.

Archive: Iraq

For the Record: Hans Blix, Chief Weapons Inspector, UN

From the archive (2003): Hans Blix, for the record — the UN’s chief inspector saw nothing to justify war, and said so at the time.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Faith in the future: a Western Muslim perspective

A Lecture given by T. J. Winter; Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, may I express my warm gratitude to you all for paying me the compliment of attending today? It is particularly gratifying to me to attend an event in Pakistan, the only Muslim

Knowledge: Scholarship

Annemarie Schimmel: A Great pillar of Scholarship

From the archive (2003): a tribute to Annemarie Schimmel — a lifetime of cross-civilisational scholarship, and a case study in what patient academic institutions produce.