Interview With Khaled Elshami
"Post Mubarak Egypt: Historic Changes and Challenges" By Salwa Al Khatib | 22.03.2011 On 25 January 2011—Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to demand an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s...
Interview with Dr. Elkhan Nuriyev
Director of Centre for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan By Husrev Tabak and Ozgur Tufekci | 10 December 2010 In this exclusive interview with CESRAN's Hüsrev Tabak and...
Interview with HE Dr. Muhamet Hamiti: Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to the UK
By K. Kaan Renda and Ozgur Tufekci | 03 October 2010 In this exclusive interview with CESRAN's K. Kaan Renda and Ozgur Tufekci, Dr. Muhamet Hamiti, the first Ambassador of the Republic...
Interview with Ahmed Rashid: Changing Balances in South Asia and Turkey between East and West*
By Aksel Ersoy | 01 April 2010 Ahmed Rashid is an award-winning journalist and one of the world's foremost experts on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban. Christopher Hitchens described him as...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Turning to a never-ending story because of the uncertainity about the director whether to be Guillermo Del Toro or or the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy Peter...
REVOLUTION: A Power Cut and the End of State Power
Watching a TVseries is a great time investment compared to enjoying a movie. That is why, I feel quite picky before taking the risk of being a follower of several...
Movie Review: Khuda Kay Liye – In the Name of God
The Pakistani Urdu Language Drama Film “Khuda Kay Liye (In the Name of God)”, literal translation “For God’s Sake”, is the story of misinterpretation of Islam and its backlash on...
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s last movie Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) is a story of a murder and the officers’ efforts to find the place where the...
Shadows and Faces: The Little Sparks of the Upcoming War
This is a movie which can prove that a war scene between two brigades would probably not be more influential than seeing the beginning of war between two next-door neighbours....
What is so Good about The Sopranos?
By ENES ERBAY | 26.09.2011 The boundaries between television drama and cinema have blurred in recent years. Tim Van Patten, the director of The Sopranos, once said “This show [The Sopranos]...
Spirited Away: A Glance at Hayao Miyazaki
BY ENES ERBAY** | 08.06.2011 “For the people who used to be 10 years old, and for the people who are going to be 10 years old” is the definition...
“The War You Don’t See”
By Salwa Al Khatib | 24.03.2011 At a time in history when war is all we seem to see on the news, from Palestine, to Iraq to Afghanistan to Sudan...
On Michael Haneke’s Funny Games US
By Enes Erbay | 01 June 2010 As a masterpiece in Haneke's filmography, Funny Games US (2007) is a remake of the Funny Games (1997). This anti-thriller, like the others that precede it, is...
Modern Business, Modern Warfare and Contemporary Cinema
By Kadri Kaan Renda | 01 March 2010 A war drama set in Iraq, 'The Hurt Locker', by Kathryn Bigelow and a comedy set in the United States, 'Up in...
Midnight Express: Hatred Beats Cinematography
By Alaaddin F. Paksoy | 26 September 2010 "The fault of the movie is simple. It is a movie about Turkey without any Turk in it, neither in the cast nor...