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INVISIBLE STRIFE IN A MORIBUND MIDDLE EAST
In a fractious, rife-with-conflicts Middle East, nothing is spared; worship houses are attacked; sport clubs, schools and markets become unsafe with continued upticks in violence. Now, attention is focused on the Syrian dilemma, which
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INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR MANUEL FEREZ
Ayşe Yarar: Mr. Ferez, thank you very much for accepting our interview proposal. Could you please give some information about your academic life and studies? Manuel Ferez: I am a Professor on Middle Eastern
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INTERVIEW WITH DR. ROBERT MASON
Dr. Robert Mason is Lecturer in International Relations department at the British University in Egypt (http://www.bue.edu.eg/). He writes, teaches and researches on the broad subject of International Relations, with a particular emphasis on Middle
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INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR DANIEL PIPES
Daniel Pipes is President of the American think-tank, the Middle East Forum (http://www.meforum.org/), and publisher of its journal, the Middle East Quarterly. His writing focuses on the American foreign policy, the Middle East, Islam and Islamism. For details
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TURKEY’S FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS A RESET
Turkey’s current situation proves that the AKP’s foreign policy approach has roundly failed. When they rose to power in 2002, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a
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KİLİS, MİDYAT, ANTAKYA: WHERE HUMANITY IS LAID BARE?
I travelled to Turkey a month or so ago for a wedding, and a friend asked what I would like to do with my few days of free time. My immediate response: let’s go
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THE ARAB WORLD AND DEMOCRACY
The Arab Spring struck the Middle East to the core as popular uprisings landed in Tunisia then Egypt, Libya followed suit after Yemen, yet the course of events was doomed when the process was
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OBAMA’S AMBITIOUS SECOND TERM
The toll of January 1st in America brings a lot more than just New Year’s celebrations. January and early February are chock full of exciting occasions: from Martin Luther King Day to New Orleans’
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2014: OBAMA VS. ERDOGAN
One simple alteration to the electoral system in America would have resulted in a landslide victory for incumbent Barack Obama in the US presidential election, to the effect of a stomping four-to-one margin of
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