تعبير حر:نداء فتاة فلتانة

صرخة من شابة سعودية ثائرة ضد النفاق والتقاليد البالية، تنطبق على وضعية جل نظيراتها في العالم العربي.

MarzoukiQatar Love Backfires

A call by the Tunisian president to respect Qatar backfires royally. Suddenly Qatar is the butt of nearly every Tunisian joke. Here's the back-story.

A Muslim Prayerfor Boston's Victims

Free Arabs’ cofounder Nasser Weddady - representing the American Islamic Congress in Boston – spoke today at an Interfaith Memorial Service in Boston, alongside President Obama. The inside story on the event.

Hello fromThe Token Orientalist

Political commentator and visual art specialist Amanda Rogers was vilified for contributing to Free Arabs. She had some stuff to do (like, finishing her PhD) before she could answer. But now she’s all yours. Attackers, enjoy.

Sudan's Ghandiand the Mecca Verses

Mahmoud Mohammed Taha wielded only a pen, yet he reportedly posed such a threat to Sudanese Islamists that he was executed and buried in a secret location. To this day, his gravesite remains unknown. What made this thinker so dangerous? A debate over Mecca and Medina verses.

iran to arabs:Beware the bearded!

In a beautifully metaphorical text, a young Iranian warns his Arabs peers: “Don’t get too excited with your revolutions, beware those who say the solution is found in the past. We know it firsthand, and we experienced it the hard way: this doesn’t end well”

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