Musab Younis
Debate, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 24, 2011 5:31 - 3 Comments
Debate">Helping the poor…by getting rich: ingenious or delusional? Debate
What would be better: to work as a highly-paid banker so you can give more money to charity, or to take up a lower-paid job in an NGO, so you can help others directly? Aveek Bhattacharya, of 'Giving What We Can', and Puneet Dhaliwal, of War on Want, take sides in a thought-provoking debate introduced by deputy editor Musab Younis.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:53 - 3 Comments
Books">The politics of being: ‘Who Are We?’ by Gary Younge Books
In his new book on identity, Gary Younge takes a fresh look at race, class, sexuality, language and more, through a sweeping series of anecdotes and vignettes that move from Brooklyn and Barbados to Ireland, Sudan and London. Musab Younis reviews.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, July 24, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Counterspin Can journalists blush?
In a disastrous/business-as-normal week for the British press, Musab Younis, Ceasefire's Deputy Editor, looks in the marginalia of the News of the World scandal, and wonders what if the Norway terror suspect had been named Jamal.
Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 0:00 - 1 Comment
Books How to aim your gun
In his new book, 'Third World Protest', Rahul Rao attempts to ground the sterile world of international normative theory in the practices and discourses of subaltern protest groups. Ceasefire's deputy editor, Musab Younis, reviews Rao's arguments.
Ideas, Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Friday, April 29, 2011 9:00 - 1 Comment
Interview Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands
Since its release at the start of the year, Treasure Islands, Nicholas Shaxton's scathingly clinical critique of international finance, has attracted a huge amount of attention. In an exclusive interview with Ceasefire's deputy editor Musab Younis, Shaxson addresses some of the pressing questions raised by his book.
CounterSpin, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 3:48 - 42 Comments
CounterSpin Why is the press unable to report protests accurately?
"Most of those who attended the tuition fee protest last Thursday and witnessed the subsequent news coverage need little convincing that there are serious structural problems with the reporting of important events in Britain," writes Ceasefire's Deputy Editor Musab Younis, in a major analysis of the press coverage of the protest.
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 24, 2010 20:01 - 4 Comments
BREAKING NEWS Oxford University under occupation
On the national student day of action against cuts to education, a wave of occupations has been taking place across the UK, including at Oxford University. Ceasefire Deputy Editor Musab Younis sends this report.
CounterSpin, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, October 3, 2010 0:15 - 1 Comment
CounterSpin – Quality Control: Why ‘great’ (media) minds think alike
From the “Muslim plot against the pope" that never was to “Red Ed” Miliband’s victory, Musab Younis shows, in this week's CounterSpin column, how the media industry systemically enforces conformity within its ranks. Indeed, a journalist’s route to success, Younis argues, is not merely a readiness to obey orders, but the hard-earned discipline not to need them at all.
CounterSpin, Politics - Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:15 - 3 Comments
CounterSpin – Unnatural Selection: It’s only news when we say it is.
You probably know that a woman threw a cat in a bin in Coventry this month. You probably don't know that 75 people have been killed in Pakistan by US drones this month. This isn't anything to do with you or your interest in current affairs. As Musab Younis shows in this week's CounterSpin column, the importance of a news story has almost no bearing on the coverage it receives.
Theatre - Sunday, September 12, 2010 6:06 - 0 Comments
Theatre Review: Clybourne Park (The Royal Court)
Bruce Norris's new play, currently showing at the Royal Court theatre in London, examines the intersection between race and property by focusing on one Chicago house over a 50-year period. It's an intriguing set-up, but does it work? Musab Younis, Ceasefire's Deputy Editor, went to find out.
