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Yemen’s Houthi Grand Mufti targets Baha’is—UN Security Council to consider Yemen next week

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Friday, June 9, 2023
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The Baha’i International Community (BIC) has reason to believe that the detainees are being mistreated in custody.

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  • The Baha’i International Community (BIC) has reason to believe that the detainees are being mistreated in custody.
  • The Grand Mufti confirmed the arrest of the 17 Baha’is by security services before leveling several false and incendiary allegations, claiming that the Baha’i community is supported by foreign powers and had plans to harm the country.
  • The Grand Mufti further emphasized that anyone who changes their religion from Islam should be killed.
  • Houthi and Iranian religious and political authorities have also, on repeated occasions, accused the Baha’i community of a range of lurid moral and financial transgressions.

Sudan's entire history has been dominated by soldiers and the violence and corruption they bring

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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That may sound puzzling in the context of the current violence: what are the police doing in the middle of this?

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  • That may sound puzzling in the context of the current violence: what are the police doing in the middle of this?
  • By consolidating territory over several decades, this created what became Sudan: a colony built by armed force.
  • While colonial states always tended to be violent, Sudan was particularly fierce in imposing central control on a large and diverse population.

Mostly ruled by soldiers

    • Sudan has been mostly ruled by soldiers since 1956: in 1958, 1969 and 1989, military coups overthrew shortlived civilian governments.
    • Every time, soldiers continued to wield much power.
    • That process looks cyclical: soldiers kept defying the authority of civilian politicians.
    • The long-running wars with rebels encouraged that process – Sudan’s rulers recruited militia who would fight insurgents on the cheap, but who could also support them against insubordinate soldiers.

Money talks – so do guns

    • In the end, this increasingly messy and splintered array of armed groups could not save Bashir.
    • When popular anger against his rule seemed unstoppable in 2019, both the SAF and RSF turned against him and Bashir was pushed out of office.
    • But by that time, there were too many armed groups for any stable transition to be agreed.
    • So, even if Sudan’s untamed soldiers could be reconciled, it is hard to see how they would be brought under civilian control.

In centennial year, Turkish voters will choose between Erdoğan’s conservative path and the founder’s modernist vision

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
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On May 14, 2023, voters will go to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections, and in October, the country will celebrate the centennial of the Republic.

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  • On May 14, 2023, voters will go to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections, and in October, the country will celebrate the centennial of the Republic.
  • As a professor of political science, I have analyzed Turkish politics for many years.
  • The upcoming elections are truly historic because voters will choose which vision they prefer in the second centennial of Turkey – Erdoğan’s or Atatürk’s.

The presidential race

    • Four candidates are running in the forthcoming presidential race.
    • But public surveys suggest that it is a two-man race between President Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, founded by Atatürk.

Erdoğan and populist Islamism

    • This included many Kurds, members of an ethnic minority in Turkey, who want cultural recognition and therefore resisted Turkish nationalism.
    • By 2013, these groups succeeded in weakening Atatürkists’ grip on politics and the bureaucracy.
    • On the contrary, he has wooed nationalists to his populist Islamist regime.
    • And they share anti-Western attitudes, from promoting anti-Western conspiracy theories to proposing Turkey’s exit from NATO.

The Atatürkist alternative

    • As the leader of the CHP, Kılıçdaroğlu represents the Atatürkist alternative to Erdoğan’s populist Islamism.
    • Yet Kılıçdaroğlu has been an exception among the Atatürkist elite.
    • To oversee the economy, Kılıçdaroğlu is reportedly eyeing two candidates – a former economy minister and a University of Pennsylvania finance professor.

Candidates’ advantages and hurdles

    • Erdoğan will rely on aspects of the authoritarian administration he has built over the last two decades.
    • But Erdoğan faces hurdles related to his authoritarian style, too, particularly the many discontented citizens his 20-year rule has produced.
    • The ongoing economic crisis – with an inflation rate over 80% – is another hindrance to his reelection.
    • And his vote could take a hit from the fallout of the recent earthquake that killed over 45,000 people in Turkey.

A global impact?

    • An Erdoğan win will signal that the global rise of right-wing populists is still robust enough to dominate a leading Muslim-majority country.
    • A victory for Kılıçdaroğlu, meanwhile, may be celebrated by democrats worldwide as a defeat of a populist Islamist leader, despite his control over the media and state institutions.

Inaugural Goizueta Distinguished Presidential Fellow named

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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So, it’s a place that was always part of my life.”

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  • So, it’s a place that was always part of my life.”
    The special connection has informed much of her life’s work and has now led Fiddian-Qasmiyeh to the University of Miami to become the inaugural Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Presidential Fellow for the Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC), located at the Otto G. Richter Library in the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion.
  • The position, which begins in December for eight months, is the cornerstone of the newly established Goizueta Distinguished Presidential Residence Program.
  • “Professor Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is a world-renowned migration studies scholar and, given this context, her appointment as the inaugural Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Presidential Fellow is particularly appropriate,” said Charles Eckman, dean of the University Libraries.
  • “Professor Fiddian-Qasmiyeh's research during her residency will no doubt amplify the impact of the collection through the generation of new knowledge well into the future.”
    The distinguished fellow position was made possible through an endowment funded by The Goizueta Foundation.

The Legacy of Ottomans returns to India with its 4th edition of India International Furniture Fair (IIFF)

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Thursday, December 1, 2022
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), the 4th edition of the India International Furniture Fair (IIFF) will pave the way for global brands into the Indian market.

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  • ), the 4th edition of the India International Furniture Fair (IIFF) will pave the way for global brands into the Indian market.
  • The three-day exclusive furniture exhibition will take place on 2nd, 3rd & 4th December 2022, at the International Expo Centre in Noida.
  • Delhi, Dec 1, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - India's biggest & most-exclusive furniture fair will see Inegöl Furniture Manufacturers Association along with the cream of the Turkish furniture manufacturing industry, coming together with their Indian counterparts to set footprints into the burgeoning Indian furniture market.
  • Inegöl has the capacity to meet about 40 percent of Turkey's furniture exports and it exports to 150 countries."

Foreign Policy Research Institute Appoints James Ryan as Director of Research

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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PHILADELPHIA, September 28, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. James Ryan as Director of Research and Director of the Middle East Program. In this capacity, Dr. Ryan will oversee all research and analysis at FPRI.

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  • The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. James Ryan as Director of Research and Director of the Middle East Program.
  • PHILADELPHIA, September 28, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. James Ryan as Director of Research and Director of the Middle East Program.
  • In this capacity, Dr. Ryan will oversee all research and analysis at FPRI.
  • The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is a nonpartisan Philadelphia-based think tank dedicated to strengthening U.S. national security and improving American foreign policy.

India Work From Home (WFH) Furniture Market Forecast, 2026 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Tuesday, August 25, 2020
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The "India Work From Home (WFH) Furniture Market, By Type (Study Table & Table, Sofa, Bean Bag, Chair, Storage, Pouffe, Recliner, Ottoman, etc.

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  • The "India Work From Home (WFH) Furniture Market, By Type (Study Table & Table, Sofa, Bean Bag, Chair, Storage, Pouffe, Recliner, Ottoman, etc.
  • The Wood segment grabbed the majority market share in the India WFH Furniture Market in FY2020, followed by metal and plastic segments.
  • In terms of distribution channel, the India WFH Furniture Market is segmented into Exclusive Showrooms, Supermarkets/Hypermarkets, Online and Other Furniture Retail Outlets.
  • Out of these segments, Other Furniture Retail Outlets account for more than 70% of the market share in the India WFH Furniture Market in FY 2020.