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35 years after The Satanic Verses controversy, newly unearthed letters reveal some uncomfortable truths

Mahathir’s modernist brand of Islamism may well outlast Khomeini’s, despite the violent legacy of Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie

Chernobyl has become a refuge for wildlife 33 years after the nuclear accident

Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant...

Global Media on Modi and His Bid for Re-Election

While India is gearing up for the results of...

The Zionist Idea has Never been more Terrifying than it is Today

On this seventy-first annual commemoration of Palestine’s Jewish-state Nakba,...

Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform

Myanmar’s president released more than 6,000 prisoners on Tuesday,...

The Two Narratives of Palestine: The People Are United, the Factions Are Not

The International Conference on Palestine held in Istanbul between April 27-29...

Israel pounds Gaza, stoking fears of invasion

Just days after being sworn into Israel’s new parliament...

Fighting for the Soul of Islam in Sri Lanka

Today, Sufism Has Gone Underground, Radical Wahhabis And Salafis...

Are clownish outsiders the future of democracy?

Comedic buffoonery no longer marks the dividing line between...

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