Hezbollah, its organization and Syria: why the party’s future will be played out in Damascus
Since unrest in Syria began two years ago, support given to the Syrian regime by the Shiite Islamist movement Hezbollah to quash the insurrection by providing manpower, materials and logistical support, has frequently…
Turkey’s Problem is Erdogan, not the Akp
In recent days the AKP, the Islamic-conservative party led by Prime Minister Erdogan, celebrated its tenth anniversary in government while unprecedented protests were being held in a number of Turkish cities. The epicentre…
Is violence against women too common, too ordinary to qualify as interesting?
Back in February gender-based violence dominated media and public talk when South Africans declared themselves woken up, disgusted, outraged and horrified after the rape and murder of working class, black Anene Booysen and…
For Erdoğan, you are with him or against him: Tamer Söyler
“Kandils are the times for equality, unity and solidarity – Anti-capitalist Muslims,” this banner reads. Kandil refers to the celebration of one of the five Islamic holy nights. While Erdoğan was accusing the…
Can late Erdoğan learn from early Erdoğan?: Tamer Söyler
The 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, is said to have remarked: being President is like running a cemetery; you have got a lot of people under you and nobody is…
Looking back at the Arab Springs… from Damascus
Today, two years after the beginning of the “Arab spring”, the region is torn apart by a series of conflicting forces, which go much beyond those who toppled the then current regimes, first…
The “Baku process”: Azerbaijan’ s Intercultural Turn
The Government of Azerbaijan has recently hosted one of this year’s main intercultural events: the 2nd World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, co-organized by UNESCO, the UN Alliance of Civilizations, the UN World Tourism…
A Medical Ethics-free Zone? Guantánamo Doctors Urged to Stop Force-Feeding Hunger-Striking Prisoners
As the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo enters its 133rd day, a group of top U.S. doctors and public health specialists are calling on their colleagues in the military to boycott the mass…
Kamuzu Day and Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
Kamuzu clearly loved Malawi as a country. He took advantage of generous development aid projects of the 1960s to mid 1970s that was aimed at helping develop former European colonies to fulfill his…
From Koodankulam, an open letter to the Indian media
Kafila, June 19, 2013. Press release issued by the PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT AGAINST NUCLEAR ENERGY (PMANE), based in Idinthakarai in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Dear friends, Greetings! Please allow us to bring the…
