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How to remain relevant is a dilemma that confronts all Western women in old age. This is particularly acute for Hillary Clinton whose husband is a well-known philanderer and who was rebuffed by the Democratic Party for the presidential nomination by g...
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Unfair to Prime Minister Erdogan Br. Seyfeddin Kara (Crescent, May 2010) has been unfair to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by imputing various motives for his policy vis-a-vis Israel and the Palestinians. Br. Kara should understand the da...
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June 3rd marks the 21st anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s passing into heavenly company. Amid his many achievements was the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, establishing the first Islamic state in modern times. We reproduce an abridged version of...
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By Maksud Djavadov The inability to subordinate Russia to all western political demands triggered a search to find leadership cracks in Russia. In the past few months media outlets and think-tanks worldwide have indulged in the “investigative” tas...
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By Marjan Asi The former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had admitted that Britain had no permanent friends, only permanent interests. Churchill, however, was not being entirely honest; greed and imperial hubris would be much closer to the truth ...
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By Maksud Djavadov While political elites in Central Asia, Russia and the West try to outwit each other and benefit from the revolt in Kyrgyzstan, the people of the former Soviet Union are studying the Kyrgyz revolt from a different perspective: to emulat...
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By Maksud Djavdov One of the key aspects of the current global order is the unjust economic policies and institutions that have been imposed by the victors of the Second World War. The principal vehicles by which the US and its allies exercise their econo...
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By Tahir Mustafa One of the primary functions of international organizations is to provide legitimacy to states and governments that are subservient to the strategic interests of the West. The vehicle through which the so-called international organization...
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By Tahir Mahmoud Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become an important political tool in the hands of the West. Like the word “aid”, the NGOs (they also use the alias non-profit organizations) are used to penetrate and undermine other societi...
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By Zulekha Samad A survivor of the Srebrenica genocide has made an explosive allegation against Rais al-Ulama (Grand Mufti) Mustafa Ceric of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Serbia’s war crimes. Hakija Meholjic, a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide, has said that...
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By Iqbal Jassat in Johannesburg “Cup terror arrest” and “Saudi held for al-Qaeda attack on WC” are some of the sensational headlines accompanying reports on the Iraqi army’s announcement of a possible terrorist threat to the Fifa World Cup in So...
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By Fahad Ansari in London The recent British elections resulted in the defeat of the Labour Party government after 13 years in power and the emergence of a new Conservative-Liberal Democrats coalition, the first of its kind in over 30 years. For many on t...
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By our own correspondent Flushed with electoral success in April’s presidential and parliamentary elections, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan has moved against opposition figures. The midnight arrest of Dr. Hassan al-Turabi, leader of the opposi...
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By Yusuf Dhia-Allah Egypt’s rubber-stamp parliament extended on May 11 the state of emergency for another two years that has been in place since October 1981. What precisely is the emergency facing the country of nearly 80 million was not made clear exc...
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By Iqbal Siddiqui The long-stalled Middle East peace process was finally resumed last month, when proximity talks mediated by US envoy George Mitchell between Israel and the Palestinian Authority finally began on May 9. Two sessions of talks took place,...
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By Zafar Bangash By the middle of last month, frustration was growing among non-nuclear states over the nuclear weapons states’ foot-dragging on important aspects of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The treaty was under review throughout last...
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Zafar Bangash, ReflectionsThere is a plethora of institutions masquerading as global do-gooders. Some of them might even be doing some good work but that is incidental to the overall objectives for which they were created. Not one institution can trace it...
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Iqbal Siddiqui, PerspectivesLike so many activists and institutions in the Islamic movement, we at Crescent International take the unity of the Ummah as a basic assumption and premise of everything that we do. As we have so often affirmed, the understandi...
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by Abu DharrOne of the most difficult things in life is to outlast your imam. And one of the most redeeming things in life is to identify your imam. This cognition became possible courtesy of Imam Khomeini and Imam Khamane’i. We who walked the Islamic R...
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For nearly 16 hours a day, power (electricity) is out in Pakistan. For those who can afford them, battery-operated units have been installed to produce enough electricity to light a few bulbs and run cooling fans but not air conditioners. In the scorching...
