Nalisha Asgarali The fear of Islam and its followers is rising globally. With the United States presidential election looming ever closer, the steady “War on Terrorism,” a raging geopolitical war in Syria, a refugee crisis rampant across Europe, and the global security threat posed by ISIS, the world has been increasingly divided over one key demographic: Muslims….
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Trudeau’s Moment in the Middle East
Mohamad Yaghi In 1919, the then US President Woodrow Wilson set up an international commission to study the Ottoman Empire’s former mandates and the Middle East’s possible future. Remarkably, Wilson’s intention and objective was to understand the grievances of the Middle East’s inhabitants and create an American policy based on their opinions. Although Wilson’s new…
The New Caliphate: Governance and the Islamic State
Saad Omar Khan The Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS and ISIL, has been making headlines worldwide over the past few months. The threat to stability in the Middle East invoked by IS has prompted an international response—including a Canadian commitment to send military advisors to Iraq—designed to stem the spread of the group…
Seen and Heard: Sven Spengemann, Transformations in the Middle East & North Africa
Freshta Raoufi On what premise do we intervene in a state where spiraling violence is claiming the lives of thousands of innocent people caught in the midst of a civil war sustained by superior powers? On October 11, 2012 Sven Spengemann, a UN constitutional expert who has worked with the United Nations Assistance Mission for…
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