In Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed’s recent statement he confirmed that his country would start filling the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the coming rainy season. This was only the latest episode in a policy already considered fait accompli, the culmination of Addis Ababa’s actions against the rights of countries downstream the Nile. The Ethiopian authorities recently ...

Coronavirus around the world According to the WHO, the number of people infected with coronavirus worldwide now exceeds 1,136,000. The leader this week was the United States, with somewhere between 270,000 and 337,000 people infected with Covid-19. As we wrote earlier, this is mainly a result of the uncertain policies of US President Donald Trump, alternating between taking the virus ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has proven not only to be an earthquake cracking open political fault lines around the world, it has turned out to be nothing short of a revolution, the aftershocks of which will change the world in nearly every aspect. Given the severity of the changes within such a short period of time, it would be fair to ...

Many states are desperate in the face of the coronavirus pandemic: governments are panicking and the economy has already collapsed. This crisis is expected to deepen, all of which assures that humanity will likely be seeking a new path. Everyone seems to be asking: “What has the pandemic changed/ will change socially and politically?” a particularly pertinent question for those ...

Visiting the World Expo Paris in 1900, The Shah of Iran Muzaffar ad-Din was so impressed by a screening of a film he had watched in a pavilion, that he immediately bought a camera and thus took the first step towards the art in his country. The first themed movie was shot in 1929 while national cinema began to take ...

1900 yılında Paris’te düzenlenen Dünya Fuarı’nı ziyaret eden İran Şahı Muzaffereddin bir çadırda seyrettiği film gösteriminden öylesine etkilenir ki hemen bir kamera satın alır ve ülkesinde yedinci sanata dair ilk adımı atmış olur. Uzun süre “sinema” denilince akla kameraya kaydedilmiş görüntülerin geldiği İran’da ilk konulu film 1929’da çekilir ve 1950’lerde sayıları oldukça artmış yapımevleri sayesinde ulusal sinemanın silueti belirginleşmeye başlar. ...

The coronavirus pandemic has more-or-less monopolized cultural imagination in the West, sparking deep reevaluations of our founding myths and values. Even celebrity worship, one of the West’s most cherished institutions, has become a site of bitter resentment, from the public’s passionate disinterest in tone-deaf movie stars pandemic-inspired rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine” to their rage over the preference the rich ...

Have you ever seen a virus with a passport? United States (US) President Donald Trump seems like he must have, since he continues to insist on calling the coronavirus the “China virus.” However, according to the World Health Organization’s decision in 2015, outbreaks cannot be associated with a particular ethnic group based on where breakout, which is why Ebola or ...

Retired Prof. İlter Turan, the biggest propagandist of liberal democracy in our country and the only Turkish Chairman of the International Political Science Congress, caused quite a storm with his recent article entitled ”coronavirus period and authoritarian governance” published on March 23, where he attributes China’s success in fighting the outbreak with ”authoritarian governance”, while capitalist countries are experiencing broad social ...

So far, the coronavirus has affected Eurasia far less than Asia, Western Europe and the United States. Yet, countries across the continent have introduced emergency regimes or increased security measures to fight the spread of Covid-19. There are several possible explanations as to why the region has not been affected by a massive pandemic, although each country has its own ...