Author: Shahid Bolsen

It seems to me that the discourse of Political Islam should not be infused with a sense of confrontation or animosity towards non-Muslims. It should be anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, certainly; but there is no reason why non-Muslims should be automatically regarded as hostile to Islamism, nor should Islamists be automatically hostile towards them. Of course, the…

For Egyptians, the most important lessons from Turkey’s successful defeat of the attempted military coup may require too much patience to learn. Obviously, the differences between the Gulenist attempt to overthrow Erdogan and Sisi’s overthrow of Mursi are tremendous. There are very few parallels. And that is precisely the difficulty, because the most important lessons…