Andalusia Lessons
In his dream on his way to Spain, the great commander Tariq ibn Ziyad sees the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) and a group of companions of the Prophet...
Writing from right to left
Italian author Umberto Eco who was born in 1932 says in his book The Confessions of a Young Novelist that he had answered the question “How did you write your...
‘Spring youth’ and the wind
It seems that the use of the phrase ‘Arab spring’ will bring about new ‘spring’ rhetoric. In recent weeks I have written an Scalp advanced Youth worth cialis be mentioned...
If the spring will ever come, it will be for us all!
September 13th I think a new anniversary will join to the existing ones that we have analyzed on recent days: September 13th. The recent middle east tour of the prime...
10 Years After 9/11
9/11 was a turning point both for the Muslim World and the West. Nothing has been the same since then. American madness has not come to an end with Obama,...
Preserving the presence of mind and ‘language of balance’
‘Securitization’ in international relations theories is a concept describing exactly how to reach through words where the words fail. The term is first coined by Ole Waever and examines how...
End of the Tunnel in Syria…
“Deadlock” is the best word describing the current situation in Syria. Syrians do not hope for help either from Russia with which they’ve made millions of dollars of armament contracts...
Somalia and Syria: ‘On the edge of humanity’
“This is the shame of the age” said the young diplomat sitting on my table. “Which one?” I said, “The starvation in Somalia or the massacres in Syria?” After the...
The Pillars of Islam reloaded in the season of Mercy
Welcome to the eleventh issue of The Pen Magazine! Recently what we have been enjoying is not just the hot weather of summer season of 2011 especially in some geographies...
Editor: Islamophobia: An Illusive Fear
Sultan Suleiman the Lawgiver (known as the Magnificent in the West) of Ottomans asks Yahya Efendi, his milk sibling who was also a scholar at the same time, what causes...