In late October 2021, Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) tripartite presidency set out a new list of demands seeking to increase the autonomy of the country’s Serb entity, Republika Srpska (RS) which has since transpired into another crisis at the state level. The main reason behind the current frenzy...
Demonstrations once again blocked the streets of Beirut last November as angry crowds took to the street to protest the worsening socio-economic conditions. The collapse of Lebanon’s state-run electrical grid laid bare the devastating impact of the country’s economic crisis, now in its third year. The country’s population of five million has battled with soaring...
The Director of the Ayaan Institute, Jahangir Mohammed, says that the Ummah cannot leave the people of Afghanistan to starve and at the mercy of Western governments and humanitarian agencies. The United States and its Western allies spent 20 years in Afghanistan with the goal of removing Al Qaeda, supposedly advancing women’s rights, and establishing a...
After Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan passed away on 10 October at the age of eighty-five, a smear campaign was immediately organised against him in the West. The chief protagonists were Western media outlets, commentators, and even historians. Khan had been subject to smears and outright demonisation throughout his life, with all kinds of...
Jahangir Mohammed of the Ayaan Institute argues that War on Terror did not start 20 years ago, rather it has been ongoing for 42 years. He demonstrates how during that period the United States has devastated and broken the Muslim world, as part of a calculated military strategy, causing millions of deaths and casualties along...
Laura Farooq Sani, a Research Associate at the Ayaan Institute examines the word conflict, its different meanings between Islam and the West, and considers similarities and differences which might advance an understanding of how to deal with conflict resolution/management. What’s in a word? Words have a dictionary translation and meaning. However, words can also convey...
The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the debt crisis for Muslim countries argues Hanaa Hasan, a Research Associate at the Ayaan Institute. The world economy is fast approaching a global debt crisis warned Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and UN global economic monitoring chief Hamid Rashid last year. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, global debt...
The U.S. and Western governments have evacuated their employees from Afghanistan ready to leave the country by August 31, after 20 years of occupation. The UK government evacuated some 15,000 employees (including Afghans) and left around 1,000 employees behind, with some estimates putting the figure at 9,000. Yet the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which foreign forces...
Dangerous Times for Pakistan As Pakistan celebrates another Independence Day anniversary, it faces perhaps one of the most dangerous periods in its history. The Pakistani state has always been caught between superpower rivalry. Pakistan and India were twin states born out of the womb of a dying British superpower. At birth the Pakistani state ended...
As a 9-year-old girl, I remember vividly during one of my summer vacations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, sitting in front of the television whose language was still unintelligible to me, and watching scenes whose substance needed no explanation. The clips contained images of old women hunched over headstones, shedding tears into clasped hands whilst coffins...
