June 3, 2014 | Turkey Agenda

US policy in the Middle East: Containment strategy and the “War on Terrorism”

Policy is constructed in social context by elite’s entanglement and contestation of the political, social, economic and religious forces acting on it both internally and externally. The forces shaping US foreign policy is complex and multifaceted but all operate within an existing national consensus on the priorities set forth in post WWII and continue to…

De-Colonial Islam Islamic Politics Race/Racism

January 31, 2014 | Al Jazeera

On constitutions, Sharia and Muslim political thought

In the Arab Spring’s aftermath, and the catastrophic divisions and violence in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia – not to forget ongoing debates in almost every Muslim majority country concerning citizenship, rights, responsibilities of citizens and the constitutional contestations in the modern nation state – Muslim political parties across the region are facing textual, interpretational and…

Islam Islamic Politics