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Ahmed R. Teleb

Ahmed R. Teleb is a freelance journalist and political scientist-in-training. He writes filasophia.com and curates twisdoms.com. Follow him on Twitter @AhmedRTeleb.

Truthout
Dec 10, 2017
Latest from Ahmed R. Teleb
Op-Ed

A European Europe?

To imagine a “European Europe” de-Islamized is to imagine something entirely alien, a Europe without Shakespeare, without Martin Luther, without the scientific revolution, without the industrial revolution, and…
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Ahmed R. Teleb,
Fila Sophia
February 5, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed

Idea or Opinion? Should New Media Make a New Distinction?

In our new media – where articles are archived forever on an instantly accessible world-wide web – we should look for, and begin labeling, some work “idea journalism.”
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Ahmed R. Teleb,
SpeakOut
March 10, 2014
Truthout
Op-Ed

The Zeitgeist of Tahrir and Occupy

Both the Tahrir Square Revolution and Occupy Wall Street movements manifested a zeitgeist, related to technology and a global information culture, of citizen intelligence and leaderless association.
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Ahmed R. Teleb,
Truthout
February 10, 2014
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Op-Ed
Economy & Labor

Easier to Vilify Team Owners than Question Society’s Complicity

The entire NFL has been involved in systematic denial of the long-term effects of game-induced head traumas.
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Ahmed R. Teleb,
SpeakOut
February 4, 2014
Truthout
Op-Ed

The New French Revolution

New theorists and activists argue that France’s “representative democracy” is neither democratic nor representative, and they argue for a return to the Athenian model.
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Ahmed R. Teleb,
Truthout
January 20, 2014
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Op-Ed

If Crowds Are Wise, Why Isn’t Congress?

Today Congress is dumb, in cognitive diversity one of the dumbest in the world perhaps. But, it can smarten up rather easily on some simple electoral reforms.
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Ahmed R. Teleb,
Fila Sophia
December 20, 2013
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Review

Harry Potter & Martin Heidegger: Humility and the Authentic, Ethical Life

A review of Ontological Humility: Lord Voldemort and the Philosophers.
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Ahmed R. Teleb,
Fila Sophia
November 26, 2013
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News Analysis
Economy & Labor

McDonald’s, Hollande and Future Government

With the undermining of the traditional trust-based brand, economic theory predicted two things would happen.
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Ahmed R. Teleb,
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November 26, 2013
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