Sociologist (and longtime TIF contributor) Nilüfer Göle assesses the emerging opposition movement in Turkey at Today's Zaman.
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Morsi’s moves
On November 21st, a Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, bringing an end to eight days of particularly…
CFP: Religion in modern democracies
From June 3rd to June 7th, 2013, the Forum Scientiarum of Tübingen University, will host an interdisciplinary summer school on…
Freedom without religious freedom?
Recently on Big Questions Online (BQO), Thomas Farr puts forth and analyzes the question, "Is religious freedom necessary for other…
Egypt at the crossroads
Mohamed Morsi was declared President of Egypt little more than two weeks ago. Challenger and former President Hosni Mubarak’s last…
Muslim Brotherhood candidate wins Egyptian election
The New York Times reports on the atmosphere in Cairo today, after news came in that Mohamed Morsi is the…
Tunisian modernities
Over at the University of Notre Dame's Contending Modernities blog, Michael Driessen takes lessons from the secular-Islamist negotiation happening in…
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
Alfred Stepan is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University and founder and director of the Center for…
Live online panel on Egypt elections
This Friday, June 15, The Duke Islamic Studies Center's Transcultural Islam Project is co-hosting a panel discussion on the upcoming Egyptian run-off…
Varieties of religious freedom and governance
As Elizabeth Shakman Hurd’s and Saba Mahmood’s earlier contributions to this discussion remind us, the received wisdom in Western policy…