by Sayyed Wild Abah | Aug 5, 2007 | Opinion
Finally, an unprecedented law in the Arab world has been issued in Mauritania. The new law defines and regulates the status and role of the opposition leader and grants him protocol and special financial privileges. The new law also obliges the President of the...
by Sayyed Wild Abah | Jul 30, 2007 | Opinion
Many are questioning if what we are witnessing today in Turkey can be regarded as a model that can be applied by Islamist movements, or whether it is an exception that bears the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of a unique experiment that cannot be generalized?...
by Sayyed Wild Abah | Jul 24, 2007 | Opinion
In the 1970s, Edward Said had observed that the unfavorable image of Islam in the West had shifted from being solely discussed and perpetuated within academia to becoming inherent in popular Western culture. He highlighted the main features of this phenomenon in his...
by Sayyed Wild Abah | Jul 17, 2007 | Opinion
The new president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, launched a campaign for Mediterranean unity that begins in the Maghreb region, to which he devoted his first tour outside of Europe. As soon as he came to power, Sarkozy announced this project, considering it the natural...
by Sayyed Wild Abah | Jul 8, 2007 | Opinion
I had previously written about the ordeal of Saudi liberals in comparison to their counterparts in the Arab Gulf region and pointed out their preoccupation with issues such as literary modernity, trends of criticism and new linguistics research instead of engaging in...
