The Arab Spring spawned a mixed record of success regarding liberalization, but one recent bright spot has been the revolution...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 2 weeks ago
The Egyptian Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz wrote in his novel ‘Heart of the Night’, that ‘Politics is a spacious...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 3 weeks ago
When governments talk about how to reduce the risk of terrorism, the most oft-voiced policies are security-based: detecting and cracking...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 1 month ago
There is no doubt that technology has made our lives easier. From communicating with others despite miles of separation, to...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 1 month ago
I was watching a promotional clip of Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former US President Barack Obama. He was discussing his...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 1 month ago
It is so painful, so inexpressible when I look at what our relationship with “the other” has become; when I...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 2 months ago
Today, Syria is experiencing a serious impasse, where the country is living in a state of “no war, no peace”. There...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 3 months ago
On one of my visits to Germany, while walking in the streets of Munich, I bumped into a sheikh whom I know...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 3 months ago
George Holyoake’s 1896 publication English Secularism describes secularism as follows: “Secularism is a code of duty pertaining to this life, founded on...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 3 months ago
Did Macron catch the vicious “bug” of sectarianism from Lebanese officials when he met them in Beirut? They know how...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 3 months ago
During and after each US presidential election, the connotations of winning and losing differ from their general use, as the...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 4 months ago
Historians agree unanimously on the importance Christianity’s role in the Arab renaissance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 4 months ago
Every four years, the world, armed with statistics on the one hand and predictions and expectations on the other, gaze...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 4 months ago
While presenting his strategic vision to confront “political Islam” in a speech on October 2, French President Emmanuel Macron could...
Hasan Ismaik Hasanis 4 months ago