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Saleh Bechir

Saleh Bechir is a Tunisian writer based in Rome. His website is here

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The al-Jazeera revelation

George W Bush’s musings about bombing the leading Arab satellite TV station betray hard truths about the United States’s “war on terror”, says Saleh Bechir.

The 'Muslim community': a European invention

Europeans’ tendency to view immigrants from Algeria and Turkey, Pakistan and Iraq as belonging to a single, homogeneous “Muslim community” reflects an essentialist, neo-colonial view of the “other” which carries negative political consequences, argue Hazem Saghieh & Saleh Bechir.