by SARAH KENDZIOR for AL-JAZEERA ENGLISH on APRIL 21, 2013: Despite the Boston bombers having little to do with Chechnya, the media were quick to demonise an entire ethnicity. In 1901, a 28-year-old American named Leon Czolgosz assassinated US President William McKinley. Czolgosz was born in America, but he was of Polish descent. After McKinley [...]
by BRUCE B. LAWRENCE for ISLAMiCommentary and TIRN on NOVEMBER 29, 2012: What can we learn from an aging Turkish Imam with a pan-Turkish cultural movement to his name and a deceased Algerian philosopher — both of whom command attention as devout Muslims and men of science — about civilizational rebuilding in the modern era?
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on OCTOBER 31, 2012: With the weekend Eid al Adha “ceasefire” broken in Syria, and continuous fighting since, there appears to be less and less hope of a resolution to the sectarian conflict in Syria that is turning into a civil war and an international quagmire. Noted Syria scholar, [...]
by FAHEEM YOUNUS for THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR on NOVEMBER 1, 2012: After watching the presidential debates, now watch the 2007 biographical drama, “Charlie Wilson’s War.” It’s about the period when the United States was leaving Afghanistan after wrapping up its covert anti-Soviet operation there. Tom Hanks, who played the role of Congressman Charlie Wilson in the movie, pleaded with lawmakers, [...]
Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Plus Other Experts, Address Afghanistan, Syria, Mali
compiled by ISLAMiCommentary on January 18, 2013: Ambassador Ryan Crocker, currently a Kissinger senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, is in Dallas this week as a guest of the World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth. Ambassador Crocker sat down with The Dallas Morning News’ editorial writer Tod Robberson yesterday and discussed the future of Afghanistan [...]
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