David Lepeska

While Turkey has not become a post-revolutionary Iran or Pakistan after the AKP came to power, the party has steadily moved it away from Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secular republic.

Karaköy is Istanbul’s hippest district, with vibrant galleries and nightlife galore.

Turkey's long-ruling AKP is facing fierce criticism over rampant state corruption, but its economic successes, persecution of whistleblowers and control over the media mean that it could entrench itself indefinitely, David Lepeska writes

A fierce battle is being waged for power and influence in Turkish politics with a seeming disregard for the voting public. David Lepeska makes sense of the daily drama.

After four novels, Aleksandar Hemon's fifth book is non-fiction, but it still mines the same territory of Eastern European protagonists struggling with their new lives in America, writes David Lepeska

As a number of nationalist groups battle for Turkey's soul, the anthropologist Jenny White sees another group of 'new Turks' on the world stage remaking Muslim democracy.

As Barack Obama prepares for his second inauguration, David Lepeska remembers what might be called the American Spring, when a bloody crackdown on the streets of Chicago laid the groundwork for today’s unequal states of America.

Before the advent of photography, illustrations were a common form of journalism. In the iPad and internet age, art and journalism are again joining forces.

Many people believe religious cooperation in this polarised age is doomed to failure. But by focusing on students, can Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core prevail?

The relaunch of a Jazz Age literary publication has not only revived a long-forgotten treasure, it has done so by embracing a new media model.

At this time of rising tensions between Iran and Israel, a prominent nuclear proliferation expert warns that taking too aggressive an approach could have the opposite of its intended effect.

David Lepeska talks to the über-prolific novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor Ayad Akhtar about the struggle to find his voice and what it means to be a Muslim artist in the West.

Craig Thompson's new graphic novel, a beautifully drawn but disturbing fairy tale set in an ever-shifting Arabian landscape, is undermined by its flawed narrative.

Fawaz Gerges asserts that US influence in the region is declining rapidly, a trend he attributes to the rise of pluralism and a shift in strategic emphasis to the Pacific.