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Protean View @proteanview.muftah.org · 3d

The release of our latest episode today marks a modest milestone for Protean View––our tenth episode! Keeping the show running at a consistent pace is a challenge, but we're excited for what's ahead. We hope you're enjoying our content. Thank you for your support ✌️

The Politics of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · 3d

Don’t miss this—the recent response of philosophy departments to the Gaza genocide is also discussed.

Other topics include Rawls’ early religious & political influences, the meaning of the analytic-continental divide, & how philosophy has historically reinforced the status quo.

Protean View @proteanview.muftah.org · 3d

We have a new episode out with @schuringa.bsky.social on the politics of analytic philosophy. Want to know how and why analytic philosophy framed itself as apolitical even as it was bankrolled by the CIA and the RAND corporation? Listen to our conversation, out now wherever you podcast.

Episode 10 of the Protean View podcast

The Politics of Analytic Philosophy with Christoph Schuringa

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Protean View @proteanview.muftah.org · 3d

We have a new episode out with @schuringa.bsky.social on the politics of analytic philosophy. Want to know how and why analytic philosophy framed itself as apolitical even as it was bankrolled by the CIA and the RAND corporation? Listen to our conversation, out now wherever you podcast.

Episode 10 of the Protean View podcast

What does it mean to be authentic in our politics, within systems of power, and in acts of resistance? How is “authenticity” claimed, challenged, or co-opted?

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Riad Alarian @alarian.muftah.org · Jul 3

Thanks Thomas, very good points.

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Jul 1

Muftah Magazine’s new issue is out.

We explore the theme of ‘authenticity,’ with essays on revolution and the state, capitalism and self, activism, democracy, and more.

Articles are being released weekly, and the first two are available now.

Issue 3: Authenticity

Is the New Syrian State Revolutionary?

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Jul 1

Is the new Syrian state revolutionary?

In Muftah Magazine's new issue, @alarian.muftah.org &
@mesbushra.muftah.org argue that while post-Assad Syria seemed, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary change, its inherited conditions narrowed the horizon of possibility.

Post-Assad Syria was, in theory, a blank canvas for revolutionary transformation—in reality, its leaders inherited conditions that narrowed the horizon of possibility before the first stroke was made.

Many praise doubt as a critical virtue—but what happens when skepticism becomes an excuse to waver in the face of injustice? As Gaza burns, intellectual ambivalence becomes a mask for moral evasion.

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Jul 1

For Muftah Magazine's latest issue, Zaid Adhami asks: What does it mean to hold commitments 'in the gray'?

Though our culture often extols the critical virtues of 'being skeptical,' with Gaza, it can often be an excuse to waver and mask moral evasion.

Commitment in the Gray

Religion and the American Border with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · Jun 24

Religion and the American Border with @bethhurd.bsky.social F'19 on @proteanview.muftah.org podcast: www.muftah.org/p/religion-a...

Episode 9 of the Protean View podcast

Religion and the American Border with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

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Riad Alarian @alarian.muftah.org · Jun 16

Really enjoyed this conversation, don't miss it

Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Jun 16

Our conversation with @bethhurd.bsky.social is out now wherever you podcast. We discuss the American border, its religious meanings, and 'AmericaIsrael' as a single entity.

Check out her new book: Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States.

muftah.org/p/religion-a...

Episode 9 of the Protean View podcast

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 28

Some of you might get a kick out of this short research note I wrote for Harvard’s CSWR: “The Body is Never Just Flesh.” about rival medical epistemologies, spectral anatomies, & the contested meaning of dissection in Edo-Meiji Japan. Enjoy! cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/05...

The Body is Never Just Flesh | Center for the Study of World Religions

What actually severed modern clinical practice from older ways of knowing was state power. In 1873, German-trained Nagayo Sensai established the Bureau of Medical Affairs, launching a biopolitical, hy...

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 19

Had a great time talking with Muftah for their new podcast series. Discussing the role of policing "superstition" and the secular, the history of magic-religion-science, my more recent work on critical history. If that sounds like your kind of thing, give it a listen: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...

Superstition and the Secular with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm

Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast

Superstition and the Secular with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm

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Protean View @proteanview.muftah.org · May 16

Don't miss this, with @profstorm.bsky.social!

Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra || محمد السيّد بشرى @mesbushra.muftah.org · May 15

Very excited to share our latest episode of @proteanview.muftah.org, in which we interview Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm on Superstition and the Secular.
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...

Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast

Women in the Quran with Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza

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Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra || محمد السيّد بشرى @mesbushra.muftah.org · Apr 28

Pleased to share the latest episode of @proteanview.muftah.org, in which @alarian.muftah.org and I interview Professors Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza on their new book, Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety (OUP, 2024).
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/women-in-t...

Episode 7 of the Protean View podcast

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Riad Alarian @alarian.muftah.org · Apr 23

In our country today, we have to endure the circulation of genocidal statements like this as we simultaneously watch college students get caged—indefinitely and without charge—for opposing genocide.

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Apr 13

If you haven't explored @proteanview.muftah.org yet, what are you waiting for?

We have six great episodes out (on our website and wherever you podcast) featuring Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Salman Sayyid, Sherman Jackson, Daniel Tutt, Nader Hashemi, and Norman Finkelstein.

Much more soon––follow us!

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Apr 12

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Riad Alarian @alarian.muftah.org · Apr 12

“Nah dude due process is only for Americans/citizens”

Mahmoud Khalil and the Necropolitics of Trump’s Deportation Regime

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · Apr 11

Death is the point.

The necropolitics of Trump's attack on immigrants like Mahmoud Khalil: Death is the point.

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Apr 12

In this excellent essay, @profstorm.bsky.social asks: What happens when the grand narratives of modernity and critical insights of postmodern thought discordantly converge?

On the cusp of new unknowns, unfamiliar questions emerge that a familiar world can't answer.

Prospects of the Metamodern

What elements of postmodernism should we preserve, and what must we discard? What defines the metamodern—what it is and what it is not—and why does it matter?

The market is based on a zero-sum game logic, according to which the world is split between winners and losers. This logic shapes our political culture and points a contradiction of liberalism.

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Apr 12

The ruling elite love to proclaim concern for the weak, powerless, and forgotten in our society.

But as Daniel Tutt powerfully and correctly argues here, they perpetuate a cynical winner-loser logic that reverberates in the most destructive ways.

Loser Politics

Open and Closed: Alex Odeh’s Murder Four Decades On

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Apr 12

Alex Odeh is probably not a name you've ever heard before, even though his murder in 1985 remains one of the most bizarre, unresolved mysteries of our time.

Read this incredible piece about Odeh's murder and its ongoing implications by William Lafi Youmans.

October 11, 1985 was set to be an ordinary Friday for Alex Odeh. But when he opened the door to his office that morning, he triggered a bomb that detonated into a fireball of shrapnel.

Aaron Bushnell didn't self-immolate to "raise awareness" of the Gaza genocide but to expose the limits of protest in the face of incorrigible power. One year later, he was right.

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Muftah Magazine @muftah.org · Apr 12

Aaron Bushnell didn’t self-immolate to “raise awareness” or call us to action, argues @alarian.muftah.org.

Responding to the limits of protest and the fact that the truth about Gaza means nothing to the ruling elite, Bushnell’s message was arguably: watch this—nothing will change.

When Fiery Words Fail