Turkey’s Biggest Export
Journalists and human right activists protest in front of the courthouse in Istanbul during the trial of two prominent Turkish journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener on November 22, 2011.“Either appear...
View ArticleHoisting the Flag of Political Islam
An Egyptian flag is placed next to the flag of the Ikhwan's Freedom and Justice PartyWell before Egyptian diplomat Tahseen Bashir, who served under Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, dismissed most...
View ArticleA ‘Hung Democracy’ in Libya
Widespread celebrations marked the fall of Muammar Qadhafi, and the transitional council were quick to announce electionsIn a region that is changing fast—especially in Egypt and Tunisia—there is an...
View ArticleIraq under the Ba’ath
20th March 1970: Saddam Hussein (right), Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and Assistant Secretary of the Socialist Arab Ba’ath Party, visits Arbil to meet with Mulla Mustafa...
View ArticleThe Media War in Syria
(MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)Exactly a year after the breakout of the Syrian uprising, Al-Arabiya TV did something extraordinary: it broadcast blow-by-blow details of Syrian president Bashar...
View ArticleBehind the Stalemate
A rebel fighter of the Free Syrian Army, cleans his weapon in an underground shelter in the town of Maarat al-Numan, Syria.The front pages of the world’s major newspapers and the coverage of satellite...
View ArticleKuwait’s Tenacious Suffragettes
Kuwaiti MPs (L-R) Salwa al-Jassar, Rola Dashti, Massuma al-Mubarak and Aseel al-Awadhi attend the inaugural session of the new parliament in Kuwait City on 31 May 2009. In 2009, Kuwait was the poster...
View ArticleAuthority, Strengthened by Silence
Theology students talking in the courtyard of Feyzieh seminary in the holy city of Qom, Iran, 1st February 1986. The number of Muslims who have lost their lives during the course of last two years of...
View ArticleThe Future of Print
Source: Kim Badawi/Getty Images Love of newspapers has a long history in the Middle East, where news publications first began appearing in the early nineteenth century, sometimes as government gazettes...
View ArticleGuardians of the Revolution
Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard perform the weekly Friday prayers at Tehran University in the Iranian capital on 16 July 2010. Source: ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty ImagesA number of shibboleths...
View ArticleJihadi Opportunism
Children playing next to a board reading, “Timbuktu is founded on Islam and will be judged by Islamic laws (Shari’a)”, on January 31, 2013, in Timbuktu, Mali. The city was recaptured on January 28 by...
View ArticleDéjà Vu in Cairo
Egyptian Salafists shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the implementation of the Shari’a (Islamic law) in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on November 2, 2012. Source: AFP/Getty Images I arrived at the...
View ArticleDemocracy and the Caliphate
A Saudi man casts his ballot at a polling station in Riyadh on September 29, 2011, as Saudi men were voting in municipal elections. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images An article entitled “Doctrines of...
View ArticleThe Stateless Statesmen
A birds-eye view of the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, on 19 March 2013The vast majority of global debate over the tenth anniversary of the invasion of...
View ArticleA Turban, a Hat, or a Cap?
Possible candidates in Iran’s upcoming presidential election. Top row (left to right): Ali Akbar Velayati, Muhammad-Baqer Qalibaf, Gholam Ali Hadad-Adel, Mohsen Rezai. Bottom row (left to right):...
View ArticleTempered Islamism
Turkish women stand next to a Turkish flag on November 7, 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey. Yoray Liberman/Getty Images for IHTTurkey became a true multi-party democracy in 1950, and it has been holding free...
View ArticleSibling Rivalry
Egyptians campaign for presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, a former Muslim Brotherhood member, in Nasr City, Cairo, on March 9, 2012. (AMRO MARAGHI/AFP/GettyImages)In an interview last...
View ArticleTrouble Downstream
The Euphrates river is seen from the window of a SyrianAir passenger plane as it flies over the dam of Raqa’a, in northern Syria, on May 15, 2013. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)While the fighting in...
View ArticleFreedom, Then and Now
An Egyptian protester holds a portrait of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser during a march towards Egypt’s landmark Tahrir Square during a demonstration against President Mohamed Mursi on...
View ArticleSpeakers’ Corner
Protesters use their slippers to hit portraits of famous Egyptian talk show hosts during a rally in front of Cairo’s University in support of Egypt’s Mohamed Mursi on December 1, 2012. KHALED...
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