Muslim nations could learn a lot from the U.S.
By Merve Kavakci
Washington – This summer Muslims were murdered in Holland, Germany, and Belgium – four victims of hate crimes.
These murders are just the latest examples of …

By Fawaz A. Gerges
ISPU Fellow
Since his inauguration, President Obama has reiterated his commitment to engaging Muslim societies and altering Muslims’ negative perceptions of the United States. Time and again, the new president has stressed that …

By Anwar Ibrahim
Publisher: New Perspective Quarterly
Ibrahim comments favourably on early efforts by the Obama administration to be a better partner for the Muslim World but argues that Muslims themselves must change in …

By Henri Barkey
If Turkish officials are to be believed, even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was surprised by the news that President Obama would visit Turkey at the end of his European tour this week. …

On his visit to Turkey last week, President Obama made important progress toward recalibrating America’s relations with the Islamic world. The president steered away from the poisonous post-9/11 clash of civilizations mythology that drove so …

The start of the Iraq war in 2003 marked a crucial break between the US and almost all the states of the region. “None of Iraq’s neighbours, absolutely none, were pleased by the American occupation …

Barack Hussein Obama isn’t the first U.S. president to deliver an upbeat speech in a Muslim nation. In his travels abroad, George W. Bush mouthed all the right platitudes about Islam as a religion of …

Christi Parsons
Laura King
LOS ANGELES TIMES
ANKARA, Turkey – When President Barack Obama declared yesterday that the United States “is not, and will never be, at war with Islam,” he was talking to Turkey’s parliament. But his …

President Barack Obama, left, smiles at his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, right, during a ceremony at the Cankaya presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 6, 2009. Obama paid tribute to the memory of modern …

By Faisal Kutty – More than 37,000 girls expelled from school. Twenty-four thousand teachers fired. The possible sentencing to death of a mother and her two teenage daughters for participating in a political rally. Thousands …

By Faisal Kutty – More than 37,000 girls expelled from school. Twenty-four thousand teachers fired. Three women — a mother and her two teenage daughters — could be sentenced to death for participating in …