Bookshelf – Siyasa

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Islam as a Conflict Resolution Tool? Evidence from Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict | Gülay Türkmen

GÜLAY TÜRKMEN, 17 MAY 2021 On March 17, 2021, a top prosecutor at Turkey’s Court of Cassation filed a case with the Constitutional Court demanding the closure of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), which is currently the third-largest party in the parliament. This move came as no surprise to those who are in the […]

We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria | Wendy Pearlman

WENDY PEARLMAN, 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 The war in Syria can seem bewilderingly complex. Over more than eight years, a dozen states supported hundreds of rival groups that competed on the ground in a kaleidoscope of shifting alliances and rivalries. A web of sectarian tensions, economic interests, ideological clashes, and geopolitical jockeying overlay a fundamentally political […]

Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism | Interview with Mohammad H. Khalil

Interview with MOHAMMAD H. KHALIL, 26 AUGUST 2019 Mohammad Hassan Khalil recently wrote a well-received book, Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism. Having invited Dr. Khalil to Omaha to give a talk about his book and seen the great interest in my community about it, I wanted to have an extended interview with him about the […]