His incarceration has alarmed many prominent intellectuals but this latest appeal, signed by some of the world's most illustrious names in economics, physics, chemistry and medicine, goes further by questioning the grounds on which he was taken into custody.
It is only by questioning the grounding dominating terms, the philosophemes, via an oblique perspective, that we can distance ourselves from this obfuscating termino-logical ambiance, which blinds us to other possible answers concerning the question What is nature?
Called to the bar in 1987 and appointed Queen's counsel in 2002, he made his name challenging the government – questioning the legal grounds for war on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and persuading the House of Lords in 2005 that evidence obtained by torture should be inadmissible in court.
— may feel when questioning the group consensus.
Last week a similar reception marking a Muslim holiday was blocked, and Mr. Nusseibeh was detained for questioning on the ground that the gathering challenged Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem.
Fighting for true peace and equality, or even questioning the government on the grounds of environmental discrimination or illegal occupation and settlement development is unacceptably "left" if not in line with the government's popular consensus.
He was vocal in questioning the lack of police on the ground in Croydon during last year's riots, saying: "The thin blue line was very thin indeed".
And she is surely on strong ground in questioning the lack of transparency involved in the decisions Facebook makes in creating, and continually tweaking, its algorithms.
A recent, more notorious, example is that of Sandra Amezquita, a pregnant woman who thrown to the ground by police after questioning the arrest of her son.
However, there are grounds for questioning the heterosexuality of one unsuccessful Supreme Court nominee, G. Harrold Carswell, who was nominated by Richard Nixon in 1970 and was later arrested and convicted in 1976 of battery for making an "unnatural and lascivious" advance to a male police officer working undercover in a Florida men's room.
