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The Center for Liberal Studies – Markos Dragoumis organizes on Tuesday, September 29<\/strong>, 2020 at 19:00<\/strong> (EEST) an online masterclass with an eminent liberal, journalist, author, and senior fellow at the Cato Institute\u2019s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity Mustafa Akyol. The topic to be discussed is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Turkey\u2019s New Nationalism”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mustafa Akyol will speak, among other things, about the evolution of nationalist rhetoric in Turkey in recent years, the expectations of Turkish liberals, while answering the question of what we can we expect in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture will be held in English, and will be broadcasted live via our Zoom platform and the KEFiM’s Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute\u2019s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he focuses on the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. A Turkish journalist and author, he worked for more than a decade as an opinion columnist for Hurriyet Daily News<\/em><\/a>, and the Middle\u2010\u200bEast focused Al\u200b-Mon\u200bi\u200btor\u200b.com<\/a>. Since 2013, he also has a been a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akyol is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty<\/em> praised<\/a> by The Financial Times<\/em> as \u201ca forthright and elegant Muslim defense of freedom.\u201d The book was longlisted<\/a> for the 2012 Lioner Gelber Prize, and has been published in Turkish, Malay and Indonesian. (It was subsequently banned in Malaysia in 2017 after Akyol\u2019s short arrest<\/a> by the country\u2019s \u201creligious police\u201d merely because Akyol delivered a public lecture defending religious freedom. The book\u2019s banned Malay edition is now freely available<\/a> on the Cato Institute website.) He is also the author of The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims, which received <\/em>praise<\/a> from the New York Times,<\/em> and of six books in Turkish, including Rethinking the Kurdish Question<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past two decades, Akyol\u2019s articles have also appeared in a wide range of other publications such as The Washington Post<\/em>, The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, The Atlantic<\/em>, Foreign Affairs<\/em>, Foreign Policy<\/em>, Newsweek<\/em>, First Things<\/em>, The Forward, The Weekly Standard<\/em>, The Financial Times<\/em>, The London Times<\/em>, The Guardian<\/em>, The Washington Times<\/em>, and Pakistan\u2019s The Dawn<\/em>. He has appeared frequently on CNN, BBC, NPR, and Al\u2010\u200bJazeera English, and on prominent TV shows such as Fareed Zakaria GPS<\/em> and HARDtalk<\/em>. His TED talk on \u201cFaith versus Tradition in Islam\u201d<\/a> has been watched by more than 1.2 million viewers.
Before joining the Cato Institute, between January 2017 and June 2018, Akyol was a senior visiting fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College. He studied political science and history at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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