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…
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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…
Immediate Reactions from Experts on Egypt
Read some immediate reactions on Egypt by some of our Global Experts.
'The Innocent Prophet,' new anti-Islam film, set for Friday debut
Imran Firasat, a former Muslim from Pakistan now living in Spain, is set to debut his film "The INnocent Prophet: Life of Muhammad from the point of View of an Ex-Muslim," on Frid…
Ramón SalaverrÃa
Ramón SalaverrÃa is Director of the Journalism Projects Department at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), where he has been teaching online journalism skills for nearly…
Panel discussion of diversity in the media hosted in Washington D.C.
“Journalism has a role to play in intercultural relations,†Marc Scheuer, the Director of the Secretariat of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations said to a crowd of me…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Mideast conflicts – and reasons for hope
Children in a bomb shelter, widows weeping for their beloved husbands, houses burning. Hatred and oaths for revenge fill the air. Media propaganda calling the people to kill the e…