Cutting the cloth -- Invitation -- Teaming up -- Saints of the casino -- Car crash -- Trip to Mexico -- Don Quixote rides again -- Searching for the key -- A moon shot -- Visit to campus -- Confronting the enemy -- Mysteries of money -- Garbage dream -- Crash warning -- Stopping time -- Into the...

This is part of the first part of a book I started writing in the year 2008 under the title of Sad Trilogy: The Crisis of a Nation. In this part it is narrating the Sudan under the Inqaz regime, specially before and after the Darfur region crisis and civil wars, the rage of the international...

Turkey was shown as a model country by Western capitals in the early 2000s because it successfully embraced the neoliberal economic path and "moderate Islamist" values. In the last couple of years, however, Turkey has been in a state of turmoil, which has included the failure of the so-called...