Martyrdom was also supposed to lead the Muslim masses to identify with al-Qaeda, to hasten a general uprising against "apostate" governments like Saudi Arabia's, to precipitate the establishment of an Islamic state and destroy Israel.In the event, as Mr Kepel demonstrates, both of these grand, transformative narratives "crashed against a wall of reality within the Muslim world".
Beginning with the deadlocked Bush-Gore election of 2000, the American people have been yearning for a new narrative, a transformative story that will release us from the prison of partisanship and deadlock, and inspire us to remake the American dream.
As a founding member of Rhiza Collective, Zoë develops frameworks for implementing collaborative research, transformative leadership development, narrative and healing work, and political education.
I want to combine an artist's sensibilities and process of material with anthropology, literature, and medical humanities in order to connect communities through the transformative processes of narrative and artmaking.
Although the book is for the most part incomprehensibly dense, it is at times rich in fantasy and longing, with scenes suggesting transformative sex — a way, the narrative suggests, for Robert to achieve his dream of entering "the titanic other".
Walk for Walk - Amy Lockhart A bizarre narrative with perpetual transformative surprises.
A group of fifty young community leaders gathered this month in Los Angeles for Ignite Good, a transformative leadership training in public narrative.
This phrase and the speech within which it was situated, represented a transformative historical moment in the narrative of the black male in America.
History shows granting the legitimacy of an enemy's narrative can offer transformative power to those with the courage to try.
And yet, these same colleges, which totally fit the MSI billing, have found no traction from the center to advance the national HBCU narrative, or secure transformative funding for a historically black campus from federal sources.
