Home Is Tucked Under the Smiling Sunflower Seeds
“Home.” It’s a word that is thrown so lightly around in our daily conversations yet always carries weight…
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“Home.” It’s a word that is thrown so lightly around in our daily conversations yet always carries weight…
2023 marks a full decade since the beginning of the unprecedented persecution of the Hizmet movement started in…
Following a soft negotiation of price with the rickshaw driver, I finally had initiated my way back home…
Almost all living creatures have a home of sorts. It is a land that is familiar to us…
Hizmet Movement (aka Gülen Movement) has always been given different names, which rely on and point to divergent…
Being an academic is not an easy thing. In many countries, it seems you are always between a…
Gasparetto (not his real name)[1] was a young Turkish medical student when he was arrested and imprisoned for…
Asli recounts how her mother-in-law recently caught her six-year-old son stealing a pomegranate from the neighbour’s tree. When…
The Turkey that I once knew as a hope-inspiring country on its way to consolidating its democracy and…
The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, “Scholars are heirs of the prophets.” The Islamic intellectual, the…
I have seen many un-Islamic cults play out in the word today: ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabab. Hizmet…
Six months on from the mysterious coup attempt of July 15, the situation in Turkey has become much…
The story of African Americans and their encounter with Islam in the twentieth century is a fascinating American…
The Fountain was among the organizers of an important conference in Ghana. Many participants described the conference as…
As a child growing up in rural Illinois in a small farm town, I only dreamt that I…