[escenic_image id="5511135"]The Anatolian landscape is dotted by a tall slender tree in the aspen family, known to the Turks as kavak.  This is a…

[escenic_image id="5511132"]So far, in the talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program, President Obama hasn’t shown any…

[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…

The recent clashes between Saudi Arabia’s security forces and the Houthi rebels in the Saudi province of Jazan are a small but important chapter of a…

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

The twentieth of November 1979 was not an ordinary day for Saudi society. On that day a group led by a man called Juhayman-Otaibi occupied The Holy…

The incident of Juhayman or the incident of the Holy Mosque, as the Saudi people call it, occurred thirty years ago, at the beginning of the current…

I was ten years old when the Saudi radio broadcasted news about the seizure of the Holy Mosque by dozens of armed men led by Juhayman al-Otaibi. The…

In 1979, many events affected the region socially and politically. The most prominent of these were the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian…

[escenic_image id="5510965"]The place: The courtyard of the Holy Mosque in Mecca. The time: the dawn of the first of Muharram 1400 A.H, 20 November…