Is the Middle East ready for democracy?
A letter exchange with the Turkish author Mustafa Akyol on Islam, politics, and whether liberalism is the future.
This is part 1 in a 6-part correspondence series between myself and the Turkish author and thinker Mustafa Akyol. I will be writing letters 1, 3, and 5, and Mustafa will be writing letters 2, 4, and 6 on his Substack.
Links will be added as the letters get published: letter 1, letter 2, letter 3, letter 4, letter 5, and letter 6. We’d love to hear from …
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