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May 11, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Breaking the silence on Israeli crimes in Gaza
A firestorm has erupted after Breaking the Silence, an Israeli nongovernmental organization, released soldiers’ testimonies from Operation Protective Edge, describing what amounts to war crimes. The testimonies shed light on orders and details from front line Israeli soldiers that provide firsthand accounts of violations of the 4th Geneva Convention and the treatment of civilian populations…
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May 6, 2015 | Turkey AgendaImmigration Crisis: The Collapse of the Post-Colonial State Part 2
Existing fault lines in post-colonial states have a long history behind them and are present across the world. Some may assert that we cannot accuse the global North of initiating or creating them in the first place. However, the colonial global North has achieved mastery at the divide-and-conquer game and nothing was deemed sacred within…
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May 3, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Embedded intellectuals: An ethical crisis
Report says American Psychological Association collaborated on torture justification, was a lead article in the April 30 edition of The New York Times, which brought to light the darker side of academia. The article pointed to the ongoing cooperation and research with the CIA and the Department of Defense, which in this case involved torture….
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April 28, 2015 | Daily Sabah
The Muslim question
Half of knowledge is contained in the question, is an important and well-known saying in Arabic. Taking this as a starting point and reflecting upon the current global discourse that is totally focused on the “Muslim question” with multiple research projects, intelligence programs and policy debates on how best to answer the unsolvable riddle of…
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April 20, 2015 | Turkey AgendaImmigration Crisis: The Collapse of the Post-Colonial State Part 1
The xenophobia and deadly violence engulfing South Africa brings to the fore the precarious conditions effecting immigrants and refugees across the globe. Immigrant numbers in South Africa vary from 2-5 million and include both legal and illegal arrivals with most making their way to the country searching for jobs and better living conditions. At a…
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April 19, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Blessed are the immigrants
Sacred texts are replete with references to immigration, flight and refuge in search of religious freedom, shelter and security, which can be argued as the primary themes of every religious tradition. Further, the development of secular international treaties protecting immigrants in modern nation-states is influenced by religion, which shaped the articulation of favorable status for…
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April 12, 2015 | Daily Sabah
From the human zoo to diversity initiatives
In the 18th, 19th and early parts of the 20th century, the idea of a human zoo was an established normative way to come into direct contact and examine closely the “lower breeds” of the human evolutionary scale. Human zoos of this type were present in major European cities and frequented by everyone in society…
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April 6, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Should Israeli nuclear bombs be inspected?
Israel is a nuclear power was the conclusion of a Department of Defense report prepared in 1987 and kept secret until its release this past March. It was brought to light through a Freedom of Information lawsuit by Grant Smith, an investigative reporter and author affiliated with the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, who…
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March 29, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Sunni Islamic authority between the text and context
The ongoing chaos in many parts of the Muslim world can, in part, be traced to the collapse of Sunni Islamic authority and the emergence of various groupings claiming to fill the vacuum. While all agree that the collapse is a reality, however, dating the collapse is as difficult as the attempts to fill it….
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March 27, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
How does it feel to be a Muslim?
Events in the Arab and Muslim world direct me again back to W.E.B. Du Bois and the pressing question in his book, The Souls of Black Folk– how does it feel to be a problem? The question posed by Du Bois in relations to African Americans and the problem of race in America has not…
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