Postmodern Orientalism: How has West’s view of East changed?
BY MEHMET FAHRI DANIŞ MAY 01, 2023 – DAILY SABAH In a way, the term “Orientalism” refers to the capacity of Western dominance in the East to acquire scientific credibility. […]
In Iran’s Diplomacy Map, West Is Just “One” Spot
Politics January 15, 2022 – TEHRAN TIMES TEHRAN — In line with the active diplomacy that Iran is pursuing in Vienna, President Ebrahim Raisi is preparing to visit Moscow in […]
‘Westlessness’: is the west really in a state of peril?
The Guardian Top diplomats disagreed over the global relevance of the west at the Munich security conference Patrick Wintour diplomatic editor Sun 16 Feb 2020 The chosen theme of […]
A view from Turkey: Destructive power of the West
İHSAN AKTAŞ @ihsanaktas Published January 25, 2019 Until the end of the Cold War, there had apparently been a critique of Western civilization. Although the controversy between the Western and […]
Knowledge in circulation, from East to West
FERHAT KÜÇÜK PublishedSeptember 28, 2018 The notions of East and West were first literally described as geographical directions, but today in the social sciences they are mostly used to depict […]
Why there’s no ‘clash of civilisations’ between Islam and the West
by Yuval Noah Harari / 22 September, 2018 Photo/Getty Images There is just one civilisation in the world, writes Yuval Noah Harari in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and […]
The End of the Concept of ‘the West’?
Vessela Tcherneva @vtcherneva 18th May, 2018 The West is more and more divided and global strategic interests are diverging. The impact of the US President on views and transatlantic trust is significant. ‘You, Europeans, come to this town to preach to us, to complain and accuse, and then expect us […]
Will Trump bring down the West?
Nov 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Chris Patten I have spent my whole political life somewhere called “the West”. It was not literally “west”: while its heartland was Western Europe and the United States, it also included faraway countries like Australia and Japan. Rather, it was a community that embraced shared hopes […]
How reading Shakespeare could help stop conflict in the Middle East
There is a lack of humanist studies in the universities of the Arab world, and an absence of the texts which flourished in the very golden age which Islamists so often proclaim Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 14 July 2016 Two good friends were telling me at dinner a few nights […]
Is Islam better practiced in the West?
Express Tribune: by Faiza Iqbal — Most people are very quick to point out the flaws and imperfections of Western lifestyle, citing promiscuity, free flowing alcohol, homosexuality, gay marriage and a free mixing of sexes as the main ingredients in its destruction and thus its aberration from Islam. However, I personally […]
Pew Research on Public Opinion in Pakistan
It seems that the hotbed of news items and endless supply of blood splattered images of innocent minority victims are coming from mostly Pakistan these days. Often times, a question is raised as to what is the sentiment of the people of Pakistan regarding this image, extremism, and human […]