Asia The formative Muslim-Chinese encounter April 3, 2020 0 Image credit: Chinese Mosque by Revolution_Ferg/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Niv Horesh. The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) soft-power parleys to the Arab…
Asia How far will India go with its social agenda in 2020? February 17, 2020 0 Image Credit: New Dehli Fort by Paolo Mutti/ Flickr; Licence: 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0) Written by Michael Kugelman. When one visits New Delhi these…
Activism New India, new era: Gunpoint democracy December 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: DSC_0920 by Suhas Das/Flickr; Licence : CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Nayan Jyoti. Assam has borne the brunt of a massive influx…
Activism Raging resistance against India’s anti-Muslim citizenship law December 16, 2019 2 Image Credit: Refugees, Climatalk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Ashok Swain. India is currently witnessing large-scale protests all over the country. While these protests are…
Article 370 The Long Read: The moment of reckoning for Kashmir September 25, 2019 0 Image Credit: Andrea Schieber/Dal (lake) and the Shikaras - Srinagar, Kashmir, India/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY- NC- ND-2.0. Written by Mohamad Junaid. In a unilateral…
Article 370 News from Kashmir: The broader view September 6, 2019 0 Image Credit: flowcomm/Shekaras, Kashmir, Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Cynthia Mahmood. On 5 August 2019, the Government of India revoked Article 370 of the…
China Wounds that fester: Histories of Chinese Islamophobia August 2, 2019 0 By Hannah Theaker. Image Credit: China by M M/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Sometime in March 2019 the Baike Baidu page about the Great Northwestern Muslim Rebellion (陕甘回民起义),…
China Religions: Restrictions and reality in China August 1, 2019 0 By Elizabeth Van Wie Davis. Image Credit: Ningbo Christian Church by Bill L/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. China has always had a distinctive view of religion formed as…
Asia Modi and the global rise of religious nationalism June 3, 2019 0 Written by Mark Juergensmeyer Image credit: 10th BRICS summit by GovernmentZA/ Flickr, license CC BY-ND-2.0 One strand of the success of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party…
Democracy Malaysia today: The demise of a hybrid? Not so fast… May 14, 2019 0 Written by William Case. Samuel Huntington’s notion of a third wave of democratic transitions captured the many dozens of countries whose regimes transitioned from authoritarian…