Ihsan Yilmaz (Fatih): Was Rumi the Chief Architect of Islamism? A Deconstruction Attempt of the Current (Mis)Use of the Term "Islamism". Jonathan Rosenbaum on watching Kiarostami films at home. Turkey’s Rules: Ahmet Davutoglu, the tireless, talkative foreign minister, is the architect of a foreign policy designed to (peacefully) restore his country to greatness — but whose side is he really on? Student reporters take on the Mideast beat: Graduate students from the University of Southern California experience the life of the foreign correspondent. The Next Tunisias: Five Arab states that are ripe for revolution. Mohammed Ayoob on the Middle East's Turko-Persian future. The youngest part of the world is also the most chronically underemployed: Reporting from ground zero of Tunisia’s revolutionary rage, Ellen Knickmeyer encounters epic frustration. Iraq’s Last Patriot: Ayad Allawi represented a future that looked like what the United States imagined when it invaded — but his flaws, and America’s mistakes, took that away. The widening protest movement may prove Hegel right in the long term: History is "progress in the consciousness of freedom". A book salon on The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future by Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi. When freedom is bad for business: How the U.S. invasion made Iraq’s economy worse, not better. How did Abu Dhabi get so rich? An interview with Jo Tatchell, author of A Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in Abu Dhabi, the World’s Richest City.
