By Ljubodrag Simonovic Drama is the form in which sport, in a structural sense, most closely resembles art. Speaking of the relation between sport and acting, Christopher Lasch says: “By submitting without reservation to the rules and conventions of the game, the players (as well as the spectators) cooperate in creating an illusion of reality. In that way the ...
By Bassem Hamdy, freelance journalist, Sfax, Tunisia “We have passed a stage in history and entered into something different from its predecessors, bearing not only the hopes of our people but the hopes of all humanity. The fate of all humanity will change in the coming decades. There are those who consider politics as a craft. Politics is an idea ...
By Orçun Göktürk The US is withdrawing from Afghanistan. American troops were not able to bring neither the “peace” nor the “stability” to the country, as they packed away and fled after the 20 years of occupation. The result are endless military operations, thousands of American casualties, billions of dollars spent, and a nation that became the world’s drug factory. ...
This Sunday, August 8, 2021, within the framework of an unprecedented deployment in the Covid19 pandemic, the Primary and Open Elections (EPA) of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) were held to define new candidates for mayors and governors of all the municipalities and states of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, that is: 23 governorates and 335 municipalities. It ...
Tunisia was the first country where the so-called Arab Spring started in 2011, and it remained in the eyes of European countries and the US the positive example of ‘democratic transition’. In the last ten years, a lot of democratic transition took place in the country, with several presidents and governments coming and going and changing coalitions ruling the country. ...
By Cüneyt Akalın The Tokyo Olympics (for the year 2020) ended on August 10 after 16 days of intense competitions. The US made huge gains on the last day and took first place in the overall medal count. China came in second followed by Japan and the UK. Russia, accepted to the Tokyo Olympics under the banner of Russia Olympic ...
The Raisi government will start work this week facing an enormous wave of problems. He is arriving to the presidency as the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has spread over the country and made the situation the worst since two years, and at the same time, the social-economic situation of the country cannot tolerate serious restrictive policies. Furthermore, the ...
Last week, the Turkish public agenda has been busy with three main topics. The first topic was Defense Minister Hulusi Akar’s visit to the Pakistani Chief of Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa. The second was the new Olympic record for the Turkish athletes in numbers of medals brought home, surpassing the previous record in 1948. The third was the ongoing ...
Turkey’s Vatan Party has started an Initiative on the New International Order (NINTO) and organized an international symposium. 38 distinguished speakers representing 24 countries from 6 continents parcipated in the symposium, among them various experts of United World International, on April 17, 2021. Participants debated a wide range of issues from the end of the unipolar world to the crisis ...
At the end of July, López Obrador, the President of Mexico, addressed the foreign ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), based on harsh criticism of the OAS, emphasizing the need to relaunch the organization for continental integration of Our America. His position was supported from multiple angles and by different actors. We will try here ...