Category: Opinion

Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei surprised Iranians by appointing Ibrahim Raeesi as the new chief of Iranian judiciary By Selim Celal -The Turkey-based writer is an expert on Iran’s foreign policy and domestic politics. On March 7, 2019, Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme leader of Iran surprised Iranians by appointing Ibrahim Raeesi as the new chief of […]

Challenging this terrorist attack requires us to primarily challenge the broader discourse that has enabled the legal discrimination of Muslims By Farid Hafez Farid Hafez is senior researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Salzburg and senior researcher for The Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University. SALZBURG  The white supremacist terrorist could have chosen […]

In a consumerist society, we often think of how much we are spending first – but the cost to the environment could be far greater The impact of the fashion industry on the environment is colossal, from the overuse of natural resources to the amount of water used in dyeing materials, the carbon footprint of clothes being […]

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) received the 43.16 percent of the vote in the local elections of 2014, the highest of all participating parties. For the local elections of March 31, it received 45 percent, increasing 2 percent, and came out as the clear victor again. However, the country’s major cities, such as […]

HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — Too poor to even buy pens and notebooks for school, Mehdi left his home in Afghanistan soon after his 17th birthday and headed to Iran, hoping to make his way to Europe and find work. Instead, Mehdi ended up fighting in Syria’s civil war, a conflict he had nothing to do […]

Too often the political and media establishment contribute to an environment in which hatred can thrive hen it comes to the threat of Islamist terrorism, no one doubts the role of radicalisation. The internet, hate preachers such as Anjem Choudary and Abu Hamza, and the western-armed, extremism-exporting state of Saudi Arabia: all play their part in radicalising the […]

SRINAGAR, INDIA (WASHINGTON POST) – He was the kind of professor students adored, always ready to help with books, advice or small loans. His colleagues in the sociology department found him reliable and ambitious, a scholar whose research on consumerism might propel him to a post elsewhere in India. So it was out of character […]

By creating insensitivity to the deaths of Muslims — by drone strikes, drowning in the seas, caged for requesting asylum — there is a measure of “desensitisation” achieved. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the world’s response to the terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques should not be “in terms of boundaries… I would […]

Let it please not be mistaken that, when we make a critical analysis of our countries in the Middle East, especially on what is going on in Egypt, to our American friends, or the defenders of democracy and human rights, this is not an invitation for the U.S. to once again intervene in our affairs […]

When reality is too hard to bear imagination may rescue you from despair. This is the message of “Confessions of an English Opium-eater” by Thomas de Quincey, the precursor of psychedelic literature. That message, it seems, has reached Iran, triggering an avalanche of empire-building dreams. Earlier this month, “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei published a manifesto […]