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A conversation with Demet Çaltekin on ‘Conscientious Objection in Turkey’
Read moreby Demet Aslı Çaltekin Can you tell us a bit about Conscientious Objection in Turkey: A Socio-legal Analysis of the…
Introducing Critiquing Gender and Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives
by Nadje Al-Ali & Kathryn Spellman Poots It has been over 10 years that we have seen uprisings in the…
Media and Jihad: Understanding the Meanings and Aesthetics
By Simone Pfeifer and Christoph Günther Recent violent attacks in Kabul, Dresden, Paris, or Vienna, legitimized as Jihad, urge our…
Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century
by Ahmet Erdi Öztürk Religion and belief are two of humanity’s oldest identity codes. Identity is intertwined with religion and,…
Palestinian lives matter
By Ronit Lentin When the announcement of the candidacy of Israeli lawmaker and retired general Efraim ‘Effi’ Eitam as director…
Opium in Afghanistan, a glimpse from the past
By Sara Peterson In recent years, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has become a news item, with reports…
The Future of the Energy Transition for Middle East Gulf Economies Post Pandemic
By Jamil Hijazi, Jessica Obeid and Michel-Ange Medlej Jamil Hijazi and co-authors (Jessica Obeid and Michael-Ange Medlej) navigate the future…
Three Ways to Counter a Propaganda Narrative (and How Iraqi Writers under Saddam Hussein Did it)
When I first started my research on propaganda and culture in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the study of propaganda was…
George Strachan of the Mearns: A Historian’s Biography
Biography is a dangerous genre for any historian. Inevitably it has to be set in the history of the subject’s…
Five Essentials of Muslim Preaching
To celebrate the release of Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies, editors Simon…