by Qaisar Shareef | Apr 18, 2017 | Qaisar Shareef, Turkey, USA
Citizens of Turkey just voted in a referendum on whether to move from a parliamentary to a presidential system of democracy – one in which a great amount of power would be concentrated in the hands of one person, the duly elected president of the country. Turkey...
by Qaisar Shareef | Apr 9, 2017 | Qaisar Shareef, When Tribesmen Came Calling
The US missile attack on the airbase in Syria made memories of my 2010 trip to that beautiful country rush back to my mind. The Syria that I saw, the beautiful winding lanes of the old city of Damascus, all the ancient sites around the city, are no longer the way I...