China’s Economic Interests in the GCC: Economic Gains over Politics
It also provides a global platform, including Islamic finance, to accelerate the internalization of the renminbi (RMB), the Chinese currency.
ICC Probe in Palestine Brings Some Hope to the Palestinians at Last
Israel and its allies in the United States and other Western countries go to great pains to present the situation in Palestine as a battle of democracy against “Islamofascist terror,” one that can only be solved by total annihilation of the enemy.
Why Did the United States Add Israel to CENTCOM?
On its website, deterring the Islamic Republic is listed by CENTCOM as its number one priority followed by supporting a political resolution in Afghanistan; “maintaining Defeat-ISIS Campaign in Syria and Iraq;” “Countering the UAS Threat” and “Weaponization of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Refugees.
Gulf Regional Rift Mended but Will It Extend to Turkey?
It’s not talked about in a pretentious way, but there is a Pakistani commitment to intervene in a decisive manner if Islam’s holiest cities come under threat and Saudi Arabia seeks help.
Living as Muslim in New Zealand after the Christchurch Mosque Attacks: An Interview with Anjum Rahman
Nihan Duran interviewed Anjum Rahman, a founding member of the Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand, on the overall conditions of Muslim communities in New Zealand.
Modern-Day Orientalists Have Never Understood the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring had many messages, the most important of which was that the Arab people could hold their governments…
Hatem Ali’s Contribution to a Collective Memory Spirited by Drama, History, and Politics
The TV drama addresses the events that sparked a 40-year war following the killing of Udai bin Rabia’s brother, highlighting blood feud, a complex phenomenon that predates Islam in the Arab world.
How Turkey and Saudi Arabia Compete in the Balkans
However, the involvement of Saudi Arabia with its Salafi version of Islam in the Balkans has endangered the influence of Turkey on the region’s Muslim communities.
Malaysia and Turkey: Old Friends, New Allies?
Both countries are active members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation.
GCC Breakthrough Faces Risk of Relapse as Underlying Tensions Remain
At issue was Qatar’s support for revolutionary forces, especially Sunni Islamists who were making significant gains amid the upheaval, as well as its positive relations with regional powers Iran and Turkey, all of whom Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain felt threatened Gulf interests.
Political Assassinations: From the Assassins to Modern Politics
Following its establishment, Israel has assassinated key Palestinian political leaders, by planting bombs in their cars (writer Ghassan Kanafani); by poisoning them (Wadi Haddad, who is believed to have been assassinated by Israel by a poisoned chocolate bar); by direct shooting (fatal shooting of Islamic Jihad leader, Fathi Shaghaghi, who was gunned down in Cyprus, and Ahmed Yassin, Hamas’s supreme leader, who was killed by a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter as he left a mosque on a wheelchair in 2004).
French Youth and the Far-Right: When Will the Culture War Begin?
Read: Islamophobia Is Now a Source of Pride in FranceThe National Rally, in spite of the young Bardella factor, has remained a party of the elderly.
Morocco Lost One of Its “Sacred” Causes with the Israel Normalization
The Federation of the Democratic Left (FGD), with two deputies in the House of Representatives that protested, but softly; and two other movements without parliamentary representation, who are still considered as the real opposition parties in Morocco: the Marxists of the Democratic Way, and the Islamists of the powerful association Al Adl Wal Ihsane (Justice and Spirituality).
Sour Candy in the Mouth: US-Turkey Relations
Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks shook the Western world while igniting the processes of Islamophobia, the hawkish transformation of conflict conceptualizations, and the solidified interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
French McCarthyism Targets Muslims in the Name of Republican Values
In a speech on October 2, 2020, President Emmanuel Macron coined the term “Islamic separatism” by stating that the Muslim suburbs, which he described as “ghettos,” have been witnessing a tendency to secede from the Republic.
“Yemenis Are Not Going Hungry, They Are Starving”
The Yemenis have different political agendas: the Houthis want to continue creating an Islamic state while most southerners want to be independent from the north and establish their own state.
Iraq’s Political Sectarianism Has Divided Society In Bloody Fashion
Read: Iraqi Youth No Longer Tolerate Iranian Influence and State Corruption Iran’s self-proclaimed “Islamic Revolution” that began in 1979 was forcibly confined within Iran’s own borders and the dream of a Shia Islamic state fizzled away in the face of the Iraqi armed forces.
Public Art in the Service of the State: Political Iconography in Iran
In addition to sculptural reliefs with political messages that were produced in pre-Islamic Iran and continued up to the 19th century, and political murals, a new visual movement emerged with political references to the late modern period in Iran.
Can Muslims Reclaim a Unified Political Bloc on the International Stage?
ithin a context of international Islamophobia and the persecution of Muslim populations in many countries, it has become more and more commonplace amongst Muslims to lament the lack of unity in the ummah, the global community of believers.
What Drives Pakistan on the Recognition of Israel: The Arab Gulf, India, or the Pakistanis?
Perhaps the most concrete manifestation of the depth of this relationship was the appointment of General Raheel Sharif, ex-chief of the Pakistan Army, as the first commander-in-chief of the Saudi-led “Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition,” which has 41 countries as members.
