Interview with Le Monde: The AKP’s Syrian Playbook
Earlier this year, Le Monde reached out to interview me about my new book, The New Spirit of Islamism. The conversation began with the ideological evolution of Islamist
Earlier this year, Le Monde reached out to interview me about my new book, The New Spirit of Islamism. The conversation began with the ideological evolution of Islamist
When my publisher first presented several options for the book cover, I never imagined I would choose the one you see now. Initially, it seemed more fitting for a chemistry textbook.
Garden Court North Chambers’ International Law Team, in association with the University of Manchester Justice Hub and International Law Centre and the Accountability Unit, is delighted to bring you the second in our OUT-LINES series on International Law.
The webinar will focus on the findings of a recently-completed research project on Turkey’s digital media ecosystem carried out, EDAM, one of the leading independent think-tanks in Turkey, and funded by the US-based Chrest Foundation.
Speakers: Rasmus Nielsen, Ezgi Basaran, Soma Basu, Alexandra Vladimirova, Lucas Graves, Kadia Tubman, Nirvana El Saied, Zijuan Zhong, Nagham Mohana, Daniel Ionesco, Ivan Sigal, Alan Rusbridger
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, will be visiting Oxford in October 2018, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Bonavero Institute, located within Mansfield college, is holding two events to mark the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
The Turkish elections were unprecedentedly brought forward from the scheduled date of November 2019 to 24th June 2018. Why did this happen? Who are the main players? What does this mean for the future of Turkey? Join our experts on Turkey in the Investcorp Theatre on June 11th at 5pm to answer these, and all of your other questions.
Tia O’Brien (Journalist & Editor) and Nur Deriş (Conference Interpreter), who edited the English translation of Sabiha Sertel’s autobiography, are also relatives of Sertel.
Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.
This year’s subject, Europe in a Changing World will examine the mutual perceptions and relations of five major countries – China, India, Turkey, Russia, and the United States – with Europe. How do these countries view and understand Europe and the EU and why? What are their current relations with Europe, including points of convergence and divergence, and how might future relations develop? In what ways can mutual understanding be enhanced?
Nine months ago Afghanistan dominated the news. Now it is a rare report or column. Yet since US and Western withdrawal the reality of life under the Taliban has become apparent. Girls are excluded from school or forced into child marriage, and women from employment. Meanwhile, economic collapse threatens millions of deaths as food scarcity turns to widespread famine. And the West, out of ideas, focusing on the rise of China or threats to stability in Europe, has no policy and no answers.
Ankara’s recent illiberal turn has led many to question the compatibility of Islamism and liberalism in Turkey. Yet, a closer reading of the country’s two-century journey across political modernity reveals a recurring Islamo-liberal alliance which, for better or for worse