BOOK REVIEW – The Pen Magazine

A Closer Look at the Country of Major Uprisings: EGYPT

Salahaddin Özel08/01/201227/05/2014

What happened to the so-called Arab spring which was cheered so enthusiastically at the outset by the western public opinion and western elites? Well, it is now anything but a...

Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Friend and Enemy

Yunus Emre Pehlivan22/12/201121/11/2016

Andrew Shryock, editor of this volume of nine articles, says that Islamophobia can be a very nebulous term. And he defines it roughly as a blanket fear or dislike of...

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The Wrethched of the Earth

Salahaddin Özel20/09/201121/11/2016

With NATO air support the insurgents in Libya has toppled the Gaddafi regime and Gaddafi’s whereabouts is unknown for now (31 August 2011) but it has been reported that Gaddafi’s...

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Sectarianism in Iraq: Why do they clash?

Salahaddin Özel12/09/201121/11/2016

22-year-old Sunni Iraqi boy facing me was telling that the real perpetrator of the sectarian violence in Iraq were Shias because their clerics were encouraging and invoking them to kill...

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Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

Salahaddin Özel05/09/201121/11/2016

Yemen, your desert is made of sand What did you want from my son? I don’t know your way or your sign I am just missing my son O Yemen...

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An Abortive Initiation: A Necessary Engagement

Salahaddin Özel11/03/201021/11/2016

After the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York city, the radical posture adopted by American administrators towards the Muslim world was the beginning of a too tiresome,...

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“Who speaks for Islam?”

A.Cihangir İşbilir07/06/200808/10/2011

Research conducted by Gallup showed that Bush was not telling the truth and on the contrary, Muslims admire for the freedom and technological developments of the Western World. Public opinion...