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This blog covers the same contemporary issues as the main Contemporania blog but the entries in this blog are co-written with GenAI. The entries disclose the prompts used to generate the narrative.

The main picture is the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Florence, because ultimately so much of current global conflict depends on where we stand in relation to St. Mary ((صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)). The image is not AI-generated; I took it from the Piazzale Michelangelo around sunset.

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Colonialism

Post-Ottoman Settlement Deprived the Arab World of Its Industrial Core

The Developmental Cost of Fragmentation: How the Post-Ottoman Settlement Deprived the Arab World of Its Industrial Core The post-Ottoman settlement of the Middle East produced a structural distortion whose consequences are still compounding a century later: it separated the Arab world's largest population centre from its most significant resource base, preventing the emergence of indigenous Arab industrial and technological capacity. This was not accidental. When Muhammad Ali's Egypt a
Colonialism

Trump's Arab deals - the beginning of the end?

Trump announces billions of dollars of deals with Arab states following a visit in May 2025 But is this the win that he thinks it is? The historical precedent from the British Empire suggests that, at best, it is delaying the inevitable (decline of American economic power) and, at worst, it is making American industry too reliant on countries that are not buying on a commercial basis, but for other reasons, and thereby speeding up the decline. When Arabs are no longer able to invest in
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Colonialism

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Colonialism

British Colonialism and Minority Collaborators

Background We are familiar with the concept of divide and rule. I wanted to explore the specific context of leveraging minority groups vs. the majority and I wanted reference to a wider array of examples than what I am familiar with (Muslims and Hindus in India). The prompts given to ChatGPT are in the first reply. Note that this was the Deep Research model that I was using. Introduction British colonial governance frequently employed a “divide and rule” strategy, wherein colonial
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Colonialism

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