The approval of the new, controversial Egyptian constitution does not end the transition process that started with the overthrow of President Hosni...

What happened in Egypt? The Egyptian regime moved to the offensive prior to the presidential elections, and the military and the judiciary did...

Although constitutions are intended to represent and confirm the spirit of coexistence between classes, sects and various components of society,...

Over the past two decades Turkey and Russia have managed to normalize their bilateral relationship. Trade is flourishing, and human contacts are...

The autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq has emerged in recent years as a potentially significant supplier of oil and gas. This makes it of economic...

With increasing energy consumption from emerging economies, there will be a growing need for new fossil fuel resources and transportation routes,...

This article examines the trajectory of Islamism as a modern phenomenon. It demonstrates that, having evolved under the influence of myriad...

The article argues that of the three structural problems of the Arab world, as enumerated in the UNDP Arab Human Development report, freedom,...

Contrary to the evaluation of several political leaders and analysts, the new Islamic governments that have been elected in Tunisia, Egypt and...

This essay is an attempt to revisit Samuel Huntington’s controversial thesis about a clash of civilizations. Though the author has been an early...

What do Turkey’s democratic transformation, its future EU membership and its growing position in the Middle East signify for a Europe which is...

Since EU membership negotiations began in 2005, Turkey has faced a range of obstacles, which have led to an impasse in the talks. As a consequence,...

On June 17, Egypt ended the second and final round of the first presidential election since the removal of Mubarak and his regime in February 2011....

While Mohamed Morsi was being named as the fifth president of the Republic of Egypt and the first person to occupy the post since the January 25...

This commentary counters conservative, liberal, and social democratic explanations about Greece’s sovereign debt crisis. It advances an original...

The recent global financial crisis presented substantial challenges and lessons for all economic agents. One of the most important lessons learned...

The Assad regime has been playing all the diplomatic, political, and security cards it has accumulated over the past several decades. While keeping...

As I write, revolutionary fever in the Middle East and North Africa has deposed presidents in the Arab republics of Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, and...

The process of making a new constitution has prompted a debate about the place of Kemalism in the supreme normative order of the Turkish state....

In recent years the Arab lands have been reduced to a uniform discourse, which well suited those in America such as Bernard Lewis who tried to...

This essay critically approaches the impact of September 11, 2001 attacks in galvanizing the myth of a Christian Europe, a myth that provided the...

This piece is on a number of critical rulings issued recently by high courts in Turkey in brazen disregard of the discourse of human rights, to...

Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan visited Somalia in mid-August to raise awareness on the devastating famine that left tens of thousands of people dead...

Over the past decade, Turkey has been experiencing a decisive transition that North Africa and the Middle East only recently have begun to feel. It...