In 2011, we had dinner together with a number of European businesspeople. The Scandinavian and German businesspeople seemed to be content with their investments in southern...

Since the end of the Cold War, legitimacy has no longer been sought in military occupations. With the upper hand on Russia, the United States declared itself as the sole gendarme...

"Record! I am an Arab and my identity card is number fifty thousand" (M. Darwish). Renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's book "We lost and love lost, too," brilliantly...

The Arab Spring that brought on some dramatic changes in the Arab countries had begun as a nice story. After decades of suffering under dictatorships, people rebelled - demanding...

One of the most significant works of the great Islamic scholar Ibn Arabi is the Meccan Illuminations (Al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya). An Andalusian scholar and philosopher, Ibn Arabi...

Few might know it, but this year is the centenary of the British occupation of Istanbul. Today, that is one century after that national calamity Turkey is waging yet another...

When World War I ended, the Ottoman Empire finally ended. While the Western colonial powers had occupied the disintegrated lands of the empire, at the end, almost all Muslim...

In 2002, when Turkey was on the brink of bankruptcy, the representatives of the "world order" or the colonial empire must have cheered together with the rivals of Turkey....