Category: Opinion

Iran Is Losing the Middle East, Protests in Lebanon and Iraq Show Sat 26 October 2019: Tehran may be good at winning influence, but it is bad at ruling after that. In less than a month, demonstrations against corruption and a lack of economic reform erupted in both Iraq and Lebanon. In both countries, the […]

Sun 20 October 2019: 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 […]

OPINION: Erdogan is too late Fri 18 October 2019: Suddenly, the Arab League came back to life after being buried for years, unmoved by the grave events and bloody tragedies that have befallen the nation since the US invaded Iraq and presented it on a silver platter to Iran. It wasn’t brought back to life after the […]

China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India Thu 17 October 2019: Muslims in Kashmir may find themselves in a Xinjiang-style dystopia thanks to Chinese technology and Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalism. In July 2009, days after violent riots in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang and homeland of the mostly Muslim Uighurs, Chinese authorities took the […]

How Turkey’s ‘Peace Spring’ changed the dynamics of Syria’s war Tue 15 October 2019: Turkey’s military action on Syria will have consequences far beyond the ‘safe zone’ it is trying to establish. After months of pressuring, lobbying and amassing troops along the border with Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally succeeded in securing the approval of US President Donald Trump for a military operation in […]

Sat 12 October 2019: In one of his statements made on Oct. 9, U.S. President Donald Trump said that former U.S. President Barack Obama had made “a fatal mistake” by making a deal with the PKK. This statement is yet another revelation — by the U.S. president this time — of the blatant lie — […]

Sun 06 October 2019: People are increasingly relegating decision-making to the elites and limiting their democratic participation to voting. Strange as it may seem, there was once a time not too long ago when the United Kingdom and the United States were held up to the developing world as exemplars of the benefits of democracy. Today, as the former hurtles […]

Sat 05 October 2019: Fears are growing that the Iranian regime intends to execute at least 30 Ahwazi detainees, possibly en masse, in the near future, taking advantage of the world’s attention being diverted to the standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The planned execution was announced at a press conference on 19 September, by Hassan Shahvarpour, the […]

Fri 04 October 2019: Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent establishment of Western liberal hegemony, American academics, politicians, and policy analysts have debated whether or not the United States should implement democracy in the Muslim world. In this paper, I will argue that it should not. Why? Islam’s tradition of mixing […]