Religion

Over the past few decades, there has been intense competition between Islamists and the Egyptian state over who is the true representative of Islam. Since Anwar el-Sadat’s era, there…

Laws and regulations encourage institutionalized gender discrimination and inequality in Iran, ranging from differences in teaching boys and girls to extreme cases such as honor killings. This piece discusses how…

Since several hundred thousand Rohingya refugees from Myanmar sought asylum in Bangladesh over three and a half years ago, joining a few hundred thousand who arrived earlier, there are no…

Many are familiar with hate speech as a form of hate propaganda. However, in an interview with GJIA, Professor Cherian George expounds how hate propaganda also manifests as…

Joseph R. Biden frequently references his Irish roots. Now, as the 46th President of the United States, he inherits an historic transnational relationship with Ireland that is far more than…

Islamic Finance has mainly replicated conventional finance methods inefficiently. It has thrived during periods of high oil prices, which allowed recycled petrodollars to implicitly subsidize its inefficient modes. As petrodollar…

Gay rights in the West have been publicly debated since at least the late 1970s. In much of the rest of the world, however, same-sex relations, and specifically male-to-male intercourse,…

In February 2019, Pope Francis became the first pope to visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Like John-Paul II before him, he has also visited Egypt, and he went…

In 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage through a national referendum vote. The decision to introduce equal marriage received a great deal…

Gulmira last heard from her mother via text message on October 19, 2017: “Hello, daughter. Don’t worry about me. I’m going to camp. Don’t write to me.” Shortly thereafter, the…