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How Institutional Economics Changed My View of Kobanı’s Sufi Lodges

VON Musallam Abedtalas

Childhood Memories Since my childhood, I knew that my grandfather was a Sheikh of a Sufi lodge (Zawiya) in the Kobanê region. It was not a subject that occupied my mind much; rather, it was part of the family's oral memory, much like tales of relatives or years of drought and migration. I used to

Lugard’s Ghosts: What is Subcolonialism?

VON Mohammad Sami Al-Kayal

Contemporary African and postcolonial studies are generally undergoing significant methodological and conceptual developments that distinguish them from the mainstream “postcolonial school”—a framework that has become thoroughly intertwined with Western activist ideology, thereby forfeiting much of its methodological rigor.

The specter of Lenin: Why is Trump talking about communism?

VON Akil Said Mahfoud

At the conclusion of the NATO summit (Ankara, July 2026), American President Donald Trump stood before the cameras and did not talk—as was expected—about defense budgets or the immediate military threats facing the alliance.