Timo Al-Farooq
Freelance journalist and political commentator based in Berlin, Germany
Unpacking Germany’s crusade against Qatar 2022 (Part 3)
The culture war waged by Germany’s public discourse surrounding the Gulf state’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup 2022 has run the whole gamut of Eurocentric entitlement and hypocrisy.
Unpacking Germany’s crusade against Qatar 2022 (Part 2)
Germany's sanctimonious anti-Qatar campaign is nothing more than a liberal whitelash in the service of preserving Western cultural dominance.
Unpacking Germany’s crusade against Qatar 2022 (Part 1)
A three-part deep dive into why the host nation of the FIFA World Cup is in the crosshairs of an Islamophobia-fuelled and disingenuous German smear campaign.
Deconstructing Western media’s self-professed “impartiality”
Western news reporting on Palestine prides itself on keeping it professional, yet any media critic worth their salt can easily expose the pro-Israeli 'Doublethink' operating behind the smokescreen of journalistic neutrality.
How to get away with murder, "Israel"-style
With its callous refusal to investigate Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder, the settler colonial Apartheid regime is flaunting all elements of accountability
Rolling out the red carpet for Ukrainian refugees is a new form of Islamophobia
Germany’s prioritization of Ukrainians fleeing war is occurring on the backs of Muslim refugees.
German Islamophobia’s treatment of Muslim athletes observing Ramadan
German sports pundits attribute any less than perfect performance of a Muslim sportsperson during the Holy Month to fasting, while denying extraordinary achievements by fasting athletes their due respect.
Post-Merkel Germany: where left is right and right is left
Lefty-liberal militarism and right-wing pacifism? The war in Ukraine has turned our normative belief system upside-down
Knee-jerk solidarity with Ukraine has exposed the blind spots of BIPOC 'punditry'
How even progressives of color have fallen victim to the imperial narrative of Western exceptionalism.