by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 20, 2016 | Middle East
Tunisia- Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party, headed by Rashid al-Ghannouchi, is expected to officially announce Friday during its 10th conference, which will be held in southern Tunisia, separating its religious activities from political ones and becoming a civil party....
by Amal Mousa | Mar 9, 2015 | Opinion
It is true that Islam is too big to be damaged by the attacks that have recently been launched against it and which in reality are more the concern of those who instigated them than the world’s more than 1 billion Muslims. At the same time, however, much of these...
by Amir Taheri | Jun 4, 2014 | Features
In the 1920s, Turkey, Iran and Egypt—the three nations that for centuries had set the agenda for Islamic debate and dissent, including the promotion of various heresies—found themselves set on trajectories that led to the unknown. In Turkey, the successor state of the...
by Sawsan Al-Abtah | Feb 3, 2014 | Opinion
It is hysterically paradoxical that the so-called Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis (Defenders of Jerusalem) have proudly claimed responsibility for an explosion that destroyed the world’s most significant museum of Islamic art in Egypt. Despite the significance and the...
by Dr. Aayid Mannaa | Jan 20, 2014 | Debate
There is no doubt that the Turkey of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is fundamentally different from that of eras since the demise of the Ottoman Empire in 1923 at the hands of Mustafa Kamal Atatürk. At that time, Atatürk, supported by the army and Turkish...
