NETFLIX: GREAT DEFENSE OF BYZANTIUM, THE SMALL CONQUEST OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Thu 09 April 2020: Netflix’s documentary series ‘Rise of Empires: Ottoman’ is not about the rise of the Ottoman Empire or the conquest of Istanbul but instead a historically inaccurate account of the magnificent defense and fall of the Byzantine Empire Netflix recently released a documentary series under the main heading of “Rise of Empires.” […]

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WHY FLINGING THE TERM ‘CORONA JIHAD’ AT THE TABLIGHI JAMAAT MAKES NO SENSE

Sat 04 April 2020: Far from waging ‘CoronaJihad’ as some right-wing politicians are alleging, the Jamaat is anathema to the Salafi ideologies of organisations like Al Qaeda and ISIS, who condemn it as having destroyed Islamic jihad. If there is one thing that does not define the Tablighi Jamaat, it is jihad as we know it in […]

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POWER IN THE CORONAVIRUS AGE

Wed 01 April 2020: Will we see a new cold war emerge? Considering the sheer chaos inflicted upon global public health and the international economic system – dominated by American commerce and Chinese manufacturing fed by fossil fuel energy producing countries, including the Middle East – there has been very little discussion on the impact […]

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EMERGING FROM BRUTAL INDIAN CLAMPDOWN, KASHMIR BRACES FOR CORONAVIRUS

Fri 27 March 2020: Having stayed at home from work for five days, 40-year-old Mohammad Aslam Bhat is worried about the fate of his family, with one thing often crossing his mind. “How can I feed my family if the coronavirus lockdown continues?” Last month, Aslam, a resident of South Kashmir’s Islamabad district in Indian-administered Kashmir, […]

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