[escenic_image id="5510075"] The Majalla: How would you characterize the scope and depth of economic recovery in Palestine? There has been a revival…

[escenic_image id="5510060"]   On 25 July 2006, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) won the Palestinian national elections. While this…

[escenic_image id="5510062"]Shortly after Iran’s 1979 revolution ousted the pro-Western Shah of Iran, the new revolutionary government proclaimed a…

There are several approaches to understanding the status of Gamal Mubarak, in the context of political development in Egypt. The first involves…

[escenic_image id="5511950"]November 2009 may well be remembered as a tipping point in Yemen’s grinding five-year campaign against a loose coalition…

[escenic_image id="5511169"]Though the liquidity crisis experienced by the global economy has become a hackneyed subject due to more than a year’s…

[escenic_image id="5511145"]"I worry when people stick 'ism' and 'ist' on the end of words.  Islam is good.  Islamism isn't.  Ataturk is good.  But…

[escenic_image id="5511143"]Ibrahim Kalin has been chief foreign affairs advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan since May 2009, when…

None of the countries of the Islamic world have a similar Islamic and secular heritage as that of Turkey. Modern Turkey is the only Islamic state…

Turkish politics have long lived by one of the most enduring mottos of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the country’s modernizing and secularizing founder: …