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July 6, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
From Fast to Feast: Meaning of Ramadan and the Global Poverty Crisis
Every year the month of Ramadan arrives ushering in fasting and spiritual contemplations about our words and deeds in this world and aspiration for the hereafter. During Ramadan, Muslims from all walks of life fast, pray and give charity as an expression of commitment to their faith and an articulation of a sense of collective…
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July 1, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Israel and the Regional Strategic Landscape
Palestine throughout the 20th century has been subject to and effected by the stategic global and regional balance of power. From the end of WWI up to the present the stategic balance favored Israel and its allies. However and moving forward, the strategic balance in the region is not in Israel’s favor, thus not only the…
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June 22, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Palestinian society and the Apartheid Wall
Through successive periods of intervention by the British, Jordanian and Israeli governments, Palestinians as a society, have been maintained in a predominantly dependent agriculture and agrarian economy. Family, clan and tribe closely identified with agriculture and land ownership has served as a stabilizing factor for the Occupied population. In more than one region in the…
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June 14, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
The ethical, moral economy and designing structural inequality
In his short tenure at the helm of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has managed to reshape conversations about wealth, economy and poverty calling on the UN to lead a worldwide “ethical mobilization” in solidarity with the poor. In a May 16, 2013 address to new Vatican ambassadors, Pope Francis described the current global economic…
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June 9, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
“Islamic Reformation” and the West living in our minds
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt commented in his book, The Future of Islam, that Islam needs to “work out for itself a Reformation,” resembling that which took place in Europe. Blunt points out that in Al-Azhar University (his writing concerning al-Azhar was in 1882, and afterward) the “basis of a social and political reformation has been laid.”…
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June 5, 2014 | Turkey Agenda
Islam, Reform and the “Modern” Rational
At the gates of the 20th century, Muslims had already taken an intellectually defensive and at times hostile posture toward the “West” with a hegemonic colonial discourse slowly casting itself in many parts of the Muslim world. Across all regions Muslims found themselves at a military, economic and political disadvantage visa via the “West” and in…
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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…
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April 22, 2014 |
National Entry-Exit Registration System: Arabs, Muslims, and Southeast Asians and Post-9/11 “Security Measures”
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April 14, 2014 | Al JazeeraLatent and manifest Islamophobia: An inception of ideas
Christopher Nolan’s 2010 movie “Inception” engaged the world of dreams and the complexity around the sources and materials that produce feelings and experiences in the mind. The lead character, Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), is a master at penetrating the inner human subconscious, the dream world, and mining it for valuable ideas that are available for purchase…
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February 16, 2014 | Al JazeeraDrones: The dark side of power
In “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith”, Anakin Skywalker’s defection to the Dark Side is a critical moment of personal weakness and the political abandonment of the Jedi Order. In order to save his ailing wife but tricked into believing that the Jedi Knights are corrupt, Skywalker kneels before Darth Sidious and pledges…
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