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December 19, 2012

Commentary from Prof. Badie on Egypt

he Arab Spring has clearly shaked regional leadership in the Arab World. After Iraq, Egypt and then Syria have been weakened in their usual capacity to stand out as regional power…

December 18, 2012

Egypt: The Ideological Battle of the Decade

Egypt: The Ideological Battle of the Decade The demonstrations, violent incidents, resignations, accusations and more that are sweeping Egypt are symptoms of a much greater develo…

December 11, 2012

Ramón Salaverría

Ramón Salaverría is Director of the Journalism Projects Department at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), where he has been teaching online journalism skills for nearly…

December 7, 2012

Tariq Cheema

Tariq H. Cheema is the founder of the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists, a global network of affluent individuals, foundations and socially conscious corporations dedicated…

December 7, 2012

Patrice Brodeur

Patrice Brodeur is the holder of a Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism, and Globalisation at the Faculty of Theology and the Sciences of Religions at the University of Montr…

November 26, 2012

The appropriate dispute, the unlikely conflict

In Europe, the public opinion – not really aware neither of the complicated historical relations, nor of the trade links existing between China and Japan – started to be moved…

November 26, 2012

The China-Japan crisis in a broader perspective

The protracted crisis between China and Japan over control of the island group known as the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is a bilateral dispute with more Asian and global…

November 26, 2012

Pakistan’s forsaken daughters

Two teenage girls have exposed hypocrisy embedded in Pakistan’s societal and religious framework. In September, 14-year-old Rimsha Masih tore apart the sense of equal rights for…