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• Letters to the Editor

  CI’s crisp and honest commentariesWe have been ardent followers of your magazine for many years. We have consistently found your articles informative, educational, illuminating and enjoyable. It is clear that the journalists you employ are of the highes...

• Like Pakistan, the US too now a failed State

  By Tahir Mustafa If it is any consolation at all for the Pakistanis, like their mango republic, the US has also joined the ranks of failed states. This is not mere conjecture; before you double up with laughter, consider the following.   The US governme...

• Yemen: a war front in the global war of ideas

  By Afeef Khan It is often said that competition is supposed to make all the engaged parties better. Those who are more innovative and those who execute better are supposed to win. And as such, competition is encouraged in sports, entertainment, business, ...

• Russia’s imperial policies in the North Caucasus

  By Maksud Djavadov At a superficial level, events in Dagestan may appear straight forward. One gets the impression that there is an Islamic movement struggling to gain independence from Russia. However, this does not reflect the entire reality. The latest...

• Eurasia’s energy wars: the US, China and Muslims in Pipelineistan

  By Zainab Cheema Games are a traditional metaphor for global politics. Chess, safari, and their aristocratic variants — these are suggestive of power, competition, and fabulous stakes where treasuries and lives are nonchalantly betted away for capturing...

• Pakistan supplants Iraq as lawless land

  By Waseem Shehzad An army of American officials — civilian and military — have been marching in and out of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, is if it were some kind of a popular picnic spot. Islamabad is anything but a holiday resort: it has become an ...

• Turkey begins to assert its Islamic identity

  By Cemal Ahmedoglu In the past several months, relations between Turkey and the Zionist entity have started to change dramatically. At the height of the Gaza war a year ago, Turkey’s support for Palestinian resistance was second only to Iran. Turkey’s...

• Forensic analysis of the Zionist war on Gaza

  By Maksud Djavadov Israel’s 22-day-long brutal military assault on Gaza a year ago had three main components where battle for the future of the Middle East and hence the wider world was taking place. The first was military; this was the most important, ...

• CIA agents killed by Jordanian double agent in Afghanistan

  By Zia Sarhadi The December 30 istishhadi operation at a remote base in Afghanistan’s Khost Province achieved two vital objectives: it demolished virtually the entire crop of CIA officers operating in the field, and it blew the cover off Jordan’s deep...

• Egypt’s Pharaoh enforces US-Zionist siege of Gaza

  By Yusuf Dhia-Allah While Egypt is arguably the most important country in the Middle East by virtue of its population, a large number of highly-qualified professionals and scholars, and as seat of the Muslim world’s (indeed the entire world’s) oldest ...

• Analysis of Iran’s political dynamics over 31 years

  By Zafar Bangash In February of each year, the Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates the “Ten Days of Dawn” ceremonies that take their name from the Qur’anic surah, al-Fajr and its opening verses, Wa al-fajr, wa layaalin ‘ashr (89:1–2). Like its s...

• The Ikhwan’s difficult path between accommodation, repression and militancy

  Iqbal Siddiqui, PerspectivesThe election last month of Mohammed Badei as the eighth Murshid al-‘Am (General Guide) of the Ikhwan al-Muslimun (Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, and the results of December’s elections for the Ikhwan’s Maktab al-Irshad (Gu...

• A brotherly reminder to internal opponents of the Islamic State

   By Abu Dharr This year the Islamic Revolution in Iran turns 31; this means 31 years of independence, change, struggle, and accomplishments. What has emerged through the course of these 31 years, which in the lifespan of nations is still tiny, is the fac...

• Obama’s report card after one year

  One criticism hurled by Barack Obama’s opponents during the 2008 presidential campaign was that he was a Muslim. To his lasting shame, Obama called this a “smear.” We know he is not a Muslim but to call this a smear is beneath contempt. This, howeve...

• Iran’s Islamic Revolution turns 31

  Editorials, Zafar Bangash It was the late British Prime Minister Harold Wilson who had quipped: “a week is a long time in politics.” That may be true of politics that are fickle by nature; political systems last much longer. In this sense, 31 years ca...

• The enduring utility of labels

  Zafar Bangash, ReflectionsConcepts are useful tools that aid our understanding. Children learn new concepts through association with things familiar; adults learn through experiment and experience. Just as children learn not to put their hand in the fire ...

• The gulag at Guantanamo defines US values

  US President Barack Obama’s January 22 deadline for closing the Guantanamo torture chamber has come and gone. The announcement was made with great fanfare a year ago trumpeting return of the rule of law and Obama’s supposedly changed approach to gover...