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Tarred with the Same Brush
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) and Turkish president Abdullah Gül (L) in Istanbul on May 29, 2013. MIRA/AFP/Getty Images There is a great climactic scene in the film Finding Nemo where...
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Polish Up Your Act
Inside Beirut’s Inglot store. HANNAH LUCINDA SMITH Hamra was thronging with early drinkers and late-night shoppers on a humid evening in June. Beirut’s quirkiest district, beloved of the city’s...
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Ankara’s Creationists
A child looks at a display at the Museum of Creation and Earth History in Santee, California on August 10, 2005. The museum contains exhibits that depict the story of Creationism and refute the theory...
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Meeting Halfway
Turkish protesters holding a Turkish flag demonstrate on the main city square, Kizilay, in the Turkish capital Ankara on June 3, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN)One of the initial reactions of Turkish...
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Razeq and the Caliph
Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the 99th caliph and the last sultan to exert effective control over the Ottoman Empire. For 1,300 years, the caliphate was the dominant political system in the Arab Islamic...
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A Brotherhood Vision for Syria
Ali Al-Bayanouni. (Tam Hussein) In Syria, Al-Qaeda and affiliated groups have gradually emerged as one of the main threats to the survival of the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad. Ironically,...
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From Marvel to Reality
Image from All-New Marvel Now featuring the first published adventure of the new Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan in costume by Adrian Alphona. (Image via Marvel)As readers, we tend to prefer the subjects we can...
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Ten Years, and Ten Lessons, Later
Saudi Arabian special security forces march during a military parade at a base near Mount Arafat, southeast of the holy city of Mecca. AFP STANFORD, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years ago yesterday, the Saudi...
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One Big, Unhappy Family
Turkish protesters holding a Turkish flag demonstrate on the main city square, Kizilay, in the Turkish capital Ankara on June 3, 2013. ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images There is a common Turkish phrase that...
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Refusing the Politics of Piety
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi. (Tam Hussein)In 2012, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi went from being Sudan’s most celebrated poet to a political refugee. His poetry anthologies Songs of Solitude and the Sultan’s Labyrinth,...
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