The case of women in Islam has been the centre of debate about that religion for some time now. Research on the topic has focused on patriarchal oppression, drawing from scriptures and statistics. But relatively little research has gone into … Continue reading How Muslim Women Create Self-Identities Among Tradition and Modernity
Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, most famously known by his pseudonym Vladimir Lenin, was born near the river Volga, in Russia. He first read Karl Marx in 1888, and his political views would build up from that point until 1903. Vladimir Lenin … Continue reading Marxism as Applied by the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union and Their Rise to Power
The state of Israel was created in 1948 after a military attack and a mass deportation of Palestinian Arabs from the area. The Jewish state was and is the end goal of the Zionist movement. Facing growing anti-Semitism in Europe, … Continue reading Zionist Law in Palestine: The Laws that Allow Israel to Ignore Laws
Hannah Arendt coined the term “totalitarianism” with the meaning it has today: a government that uses terror in order to impose its law. In the 20th century, due to political alliances, it was taboo in Europe to group the Nazis … Continue reading Totalitarianism: The Political Ideology that Uses Terror to Control
According to most authors of the topic, the ideology of nationalism is a product of modernity, the glue that binds the people of a group together after the fall of the more traditional forms of unity, such as church and … Continue reading Political Anthropology: Hans Kohn on the Birth and Development of English Nationalism
Colonial states have had the effect of creating nationalisms which, although based on rejection against the colonial power, tend to claim the land of the new nation-state. In the Arab world, anti-colonial rejection has been immense and, at least in … Continue reading Political Anthropology: Post-Colonial Effects on the Origin of Algerian Nationalism
Until 1959, Cuba was under the US funded dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. He, however, was overthrown by a group of revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro, in which the Argentinian militant Ernesto “Che” Guevara participated. This is the time of the … Continue reading History of Cuba’s Controversial Communist Regime and Sociopolitical Influences
The political context of the Middle East in the 20th and 21st centuries is characterised by a deep-rooted contradiction between pan-Arab nationalism and nation-state nationalism. Nationalist sentiment among Arab peoples began in the middle of the 19th century against Ottoman … Continue reading Sociopolitical Evolution of Arab Nationalism Ideologies Throughout Time
The FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), are a guerrilla group born in 1964 in the department of Tolima in central Colombia. Its founder was Pedro Antonio Marín Marín, alias Manuel Marulanda Vélez, who … Continue reading Origin of the FARC: Colombia’s Largest Militant Group