Articles by Dr Vahid Nick Pay

Why the Destruction of Kawa’s Statue in Afrin Matters – Polity As Turkish troops and their jihadist proxies in the Free Syrian Army (FSA) declare […]

DOI: 10.25079/ukhjss.v1n1y2017 Abstract This article aims at providing an alternative view to the prevailing narratives on the timing, the underpinning reasons and actual outcomes of […]

The news from Iraq has been grim of late, nonetheless in light of the recent success of the Kurdish forces over the fundamentalists of the […]

Ethical challenges of keeping the poor and the refugees out of one’s own lawn: from donating the unsold supermarkets’ food to Europe’s pressing question of […]

Pope Francis’s recent endorsement of the Big-Bang Theory and the affirmation that “God is not a magician with a magic wand” could well sign the transformation of […]

As Western diplomacy in the Middle East appears to be doomed to a vicious circle of blunders for over a century, the upcoming Kurdistan’s consultative […]

Texts, Maison Burganov, Moscow, ISSN: 2294-8902no. 1 (2017): 97-100 Abstract Most observers have interpreted the Brexit and the stunning election of Donald Trump to the White […]

The Iranian elections are planned for this Friday to elect a 290 member parliament as well as the powerful Assembly of Experts in charge of […]

Homegrown Terrorism a Republican Failure – Polity “Era of danger (to the republic) ends, era of difficulties starts” optimistically proclaimed the ideologues of the French […]

After years of open hostility and even threats of actual confrontations, the West and Iran seem to have embarked on a new path of dialogue […]

Why we are NOT Charlie Hebdo! – Polity In the wake of the deadliest attack on French soil for decades, all political parties and religious […]

ISSN: 2294-8902 Abstract A new wave of conversion to evangelical Protestantism appears to have targeted fundamental elements of the state-sponsored religious norms of rectitude and morality […]

Recent political events that have swept across the Islamic world have fundamental implications for the most basic principles of political Islam. Some speak of a […]

A new social trend in the Islamic Republic of Iran seems to target not only state-sponsored religious norms of rectitude and morality, but also the […]

The coming months could actually leave an indelible mark not only on the very economic subsistence of many western states but also at a deeper […]