From crises to crises, challenges of outright slaughter, the OIC is a semblance of what was envisioned in the early 70s. Gone are the days when Late Shah Faisal and Late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto could dare to speak, impose oil embargoes and dare to challenge the bipolar US and USSR hegemony or seriously question the […]
Turkey’s Hagia Sophia museum saw approximately 3.7 million visitors in 2019. Then the coronavirus hit, little did the tourists know that the second time they would visit Hagia Sophia it would no longer be a museum. Only a month after Hagia Sophia’s conversion to a mosque, Turkish President Erdogan ordered the transformation of Kariye Museum […]
13SharesThe Hagia Sophia Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, has been the site of a major controversy recently. It was reconverted into a Sunni mosque by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently. Previously, Turkey’s first president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had taken away its status as a mosque in 1931 and converted it into a museum in 1934. […]
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