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Elon, me and 20 million views: A conversation with Grok

Musk’s post about my Al Jazeera column on whiteness drew millions of views—and an unlikely conversation with his AI.

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk attends the opening ceremony of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Patrick Pleul/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Yes, the ADL is a ‘political front masquerading as a watchdog’

And for the past two years, it has played well the ‘arsonist and the fireman’ scam.

Protesters hold signs during the Anti-Defamation League's "Never is Now" summit outside the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., November 10, 2022. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Ngugi wa Thiong’o was not just a writer, he was a militant

Throughout his long writing career, Ngugi was far ahead of the intellectual curve.

This 2010 image released by UC Irvine shows Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. (Daniel A. Anderson/UC Irvine via AP)

Remembering El Rayes Zakaria, Egypt’s folk music revolutionary giant

Zakaria Ibrahim’s life saw the rise and fall of simsimiyya music in Port Said, before its reemergence in the revolution.

Zakaria speaking wearing a light blue shrt

Palestine, the alchemy of big lies and future of the university

Universities are once again at the centre of culture, and through it, political warfare.

Harvard President Claudine Gay, left, speaks as University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill listens

‘From the river to the sea’ and the decolonisation of our collective future

True freedom can only be achieved by breaking free from settler colonialism and the nation-state.

FILE - Protesters gather for a pro-Palestinian demonstration, in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. The Jordan River is a winding, 200-plus-mile run to the east of Israel and the West Bank. The sea is the glittering Mediterranean to its west. But a phrase about the space in-between, “from the river to the sea,” has become a battle cry with new power to roil Jews and pro-Palestinian activists in the aftermath of Hamas’ murderous rampage across southern Israel Oct. 7 and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Fanon’s words on colonialism and violence do not apply to Palestine

Israel’s settler colonialism is much more than ‘violence in its natural state’.

Palestinians celebrate as an Israeli military vehicle burns after it was hit by Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel

How not to decolonise the Grammys

The music industry’s most prestigious awards are once again surrounded by controversy.

Grammy award statuettes are pictured

Why the events in Jaffa of May 1, 1921 are important today

From May 1, 1921 to May 1, 2021, everything and nothing has changed between Israelis and Palestinians.

British colonial forces clear the streets in Jaffa on May 1, 1936 during disturbances between Palestinians and Jews, in which several on both sides were killed [File: AP]

Integrate, don’t close, Africa’s largest refugee camps

The forced closure of the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps would be a humanitarian and cultural catastrophe.

Children seen leaving school in Kakuma refugee camp, northwest Kenya, October 19, 2018 [File: Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images]