Postcard from…Istanbul
The minaret and the flag are competing for the soul of Turkey, or are they?
Turkeys European Dilemma
In the courtship of Europe and Turkey, both sides are having second thoughts.
Nothing to Laugh At
In Morocco, jokes about Islam are no laughing matter, as two journalists recently discovered.
Engaging Islam
Should the United States emphasize democracy or humanist religious traditions in its approach to global Islam? FPIF’s Najum Mushtaq and Abdeslam Maghraoui of the U.S. Institute of Peace offer two different answers.
Islamic Blowback Part Two?
The Bush administration is supporting the reform of Islam from within. But this faith-based approach is undemocratic, ignorant of the complexities of Islam, and ultimately doomed to fail.
The Politics and the Promise of Civilizational Dialogues
In response to Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington’s now infamous argument predicting a future full of clashes between civilizations, the world’s liberals responded with a call for a civilizational dialogue.