Fri 11 September 2020: Detention camps, wiretapping, surveillance among forms of US power abuse since Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks It has been 19 years since the US was attacked by jets flying into concrete and government buildings, attacks which ushered in a new era in fear and the national security state, years when the […]
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Thu 10 September 2020: Paris still views Mali as a French protectorate, in which terrorism constitutes a threat to its own interests Mali has witnessed four military coups since its independence from France in 1960, averaging a coup every twenty years. The exception is that last month’s coup came eight years after the previous one […]
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Fri 04 September 2020: While reading the book, Why Do People Hate America? (2003) by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies, which I recommend everybody read for the sins America has already committed across the world and continues to do, I came across a New York Times video interview with 2020 US presidential candidate Joe […]
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Sun 30 August 2020: Last Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in Istanbul that the Fatih drilling ship has discovered reserves of 320 billion cubic metres of natural gas in the Black Sea, and that Turkey will start using this in 2023. This is also when the country will celebrate its centenary as a republic. Turkey […]
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Sun 16 August 2020: The expiration of the treaty of Lausanne by 2023 has triggered a new debate among the global geo-political and geo-strategic thinkers about how Turkey would respond to this tectonic development. Will Turkey resurrect the Ottoman Empire? Will the geopolitical and geo-economic map of the region change? Will Turkey re-assert herself by […]
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Sat 15 August 2020: The controversial American journalist who sued the US government for putting him on a “kill list” in war-torn Syria, was arrested yesterday by a Sunni Islamist militant group in rebel-held Syria, sparking outrage both in the Middle East and across the West. Yesterday’s arrest came hours after Bilal spoke to Middle East Monitor about […]
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Thu 13 August 2020: The Emirati foreign minister called his Iranian counterpart last week, in a further sign of the UAE and Iran’s fledgling relations as Abu Dhabi seeks to step out of Saudi Arabia’s shadow. They discussed cooperation over the coronavirus pandemic while consolidating their ties. “Just had a very substantive, frank and friendly video conversation with UAE […]
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Tue 04 August 2020: Hagia Sophia Mosque and Babri Mosque-turned-Temple essentially different cases from historical and legal perspectives Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul was reverted to its original position as a mosque decreed by the Honorable President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 10, 2020. And the world witnessed its formal […]
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Sun 02 August 2020: The Hagia Sofia Grand Mosque was opened for public worship last Friday for the first time in 86 years following a top court’s ruling that the historic building, originally a church, had been converted into a museum illegally by the founder of modern Turkey’s secular state. I had expected a favourable result before the landmark […]
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Fri 31 July 2020: Increasing surveillance on Muslims will only serve to further estrange Muslims from the government and the state institutions in Austria The integration minister of the Austrian government has set up a unique new center to document what it calls “political Islam”. But the attempt to “fight the dangerous ideology of political […]
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