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The post-Christian West and post-Western World
W hile the Western world is increasingly post-Christian and cosmopolitan, its Eastern sibling is trapped in a post-ideological bubble: strikingly entrenched and enveloped...
ISIS psychological war
T he attack perpetrated in Manchester on May 23 last is a turning point for the Daesh-Isis war in Europe and, in the...
The Iranian elections for the new President
T he outgoing President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, won re-election in the first round by garnering over 56% of...
Baku Forum: Time to find ‘magic formula’ for peaceful coexistence
I t is time to find that “magic formula” that will encourage people to live together in peace, the head of the United...
The politics and economics of Saudisation
T he rent-based economy in Saudi Arabia has shown its limits since the drop of oil prices in 2014. Indeed, the country is...
The Vagina Diatribes, Part II: Radical Islamism and Enlightened Demeaning Sexism
Enlightened Demeaning Sexism (EDS) is an unfortunate amalgamation of the two forms of sexism that come from Ambivalent Sexism Theory – hostile sexism and...
Neo-religionism of the post ideological Russia
T he lonely superpower (US) vs. the bear of the permafrost (Russia), with the world’s last cosmopolite (EU) in between. Is the ongoing...
India: Where to?
First Brexit, then Trump. The elections in Netherlands, recently, gave a breather to nationalism. But then the tide of nationalism bestrode the Middle-East. The...
The Vagina Diatribes, Part I: Why Violent Gender Extremism Persists
“The Quran liberated women from subhuman status, gave us rights to choose whom to marry, to work, to be in leadership positions, and to...
Smearing campaigns lead to Trust Crisis
P ropaganda was originally about propagating faith, a task given in the 17th century to a committee of Catholic cardinals, the Sacred Congregation...