Image Nation Abu Dhabi in collaboration with Cinema Akil present “On Arab Geographies” Film Program 4-6 May in Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi A travelogue throughout the Arab World and beyond Abu Dhabi, UAE: Image Nation Abu Dhabi, one of the
Some 51.4 percent of the more than 58 million Turks who turned out to vote on April 16 said yes to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) constitutional amendment package. With that vote, they decided to shift to an executive presidential system.
Voters went to the polls April 16 to vote on a new draft constitution that would officially increase the powers of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The opponents of the bill including the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the main opposition party in Turkey’s
Following the closure of Yazda, a Yazidi humanitarian and human rights organization, by the KDP asa’ish (security police affiliated with Kurdistan’s largest political party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party) on January 2, 2017 in Dohuk, people have been asking many questions about why this
The New Eastern politics Art and Culture Contributor, Christiane Waked spoke to Serge Helou, a brilliant Lebanese composer who lives in Pennsylvania and uses his music as a therapeutic tool to communicate with immigrants with post-traumatic stress disorder confirming what Friedrich Nietzsche said:
ABSTRACT During the last decade, Turkish foreign policy exhibited a heightened interest in the Middle East thereby inaugurating a sharp departure from a long foreign policy tradition which relegated the region to the backwater. The conspicuous examples of this shift are Turkey’s keen
Issued on 21-22 January 2017, Berlin United in Rights Conference and 25-26 February 2017, Paris Round Table Concerning the “19 January Initiative” 1. The Asia Minor Peoples’ UNITED IN RIGHTS conference held in Berlin on the 28-29 of February 2017, created the “United
Voters across Armenia took part in the country’s 7th parliamentary election on Sunday, in what many observers described as the most important in Armenia’s modern history. The vote comes a year and a half after Armenia passed a controversial constitutional reform bill restructuring
Armenia and Azerbaijan are not only engaged in military operations against one another, but they are also now gradually intensifying information warfare. Today, this information war is being waged in the media, through social networks, on academic platforms – all platforms where it
From Homs to Lithuania, The New Eastern politics reached through Christiane Waked, to the young and very talented painter, Majd Kara who spoke to our Art and Culture contributor about his paintings, his past, his present and what the future holds for a