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. Segregation in universities and schools is no longer imposed by the explicit prohibition of black and white students from attending the same schools as it was a long time ago, but it is caused by the students themselves and members of educational institutions. Just to give an insight, segregation is the unequal or unfair […]

Orientalism refers to the Western form of reproducing scenes, scenarios and motifs from the East through painting, architecture, music, and other manifestations of art. Some artists even intended to represent the East realistically, but most Europeans liked to enhance their works with the supposed “exotic” air coming from the other side of the world. This […]

.   I think we have all heard: “you need knowledge, you need an excellent education to get to a good university, and that a good university and a good education lead to a brilliant career”. In other words, if you have more knowledge, if you know more about the world, then you have a […]

After several racist events such as the most recent death of the American George Floyd at the beginning of this year by a white police officer in Minneapolis, people start realizing that they should be more aware of their racism. I had never seen a discussion about Race and Racism in the Arab world, and […]

The novel Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian writer, shows the effects of colonialism on Igbo society from an African perspective. In the novel, the author describes the arrival of the white missionaries in Okonkwo’s clan and the reactions of his community to this sudden change. Although the British invasion had negative consequences, there […]

Before getting into the concept of implicit obedience mentioned in Timothy Mitchell’s book, I reflected on the meaning of obedience. And, from my perspective, it means an act in response to a direct order received from someone. Mostly when people think about obedience, they think about an order given by someone with a higher status, […]

Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator and philosopher, in chapter two of his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), explored the concept of the “banking system of education”. According to him, it is a system of education in which the teacher is the active depositor of educational knowledge, and the student is a passive recipient of […]

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