Category Archives: Philosophy

The Very Real Us

Beyan Farshi

By Beyan Farshi: It is in human nature to create problems and make them difficult to solve, and how ironic that we call them the essence of life. No element of nature amazes me like humans do. Although animals and plants are amazingly interesting and follow a natural instinct that makes it logical for us…

GTA game series: facing and shaping reality

Ausama Anwar

By Ausama Anwar: I remember reading Don Quixote and the clash between reality and imagination within it. There was only imagination that could face reality, creating a free world for humans, finding that which they couldn’t find in reality, and merging their imagination with it. Then, when I read about dreams, I thought they could…

On Human Development

Interview with Ihsan Ali, Human Development Trainer: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamad AAM: What’s your definition of Human Development? What is the importance of Human Development for the overall physical and psychological well-being of a person? Ihsan Ali: “Human Development” as a term or concept can be used for any activity or effort aiming at…

An untold story

Beyan Farshi

By Beyan Farshi: It often occurs in a daily brainstorming, digging deep into the thoughts to distinguish the original ideas from the influenced and the newly-developed ones (the so-called new age products). Throughout our life span, we are reminded of a story. The story of human progress: a story of hardship and resistance, suffering and…

Humanity: What if we were ‘more than human’?

Ausama Anwar

By Ausama Anwar: We’ve all lived life as being a human, and we’ve never imagined living as something else – something bigger maybe, or something smaller – so as to be grateful for the shape we live in (as humans). So here the adventure begins. One of the crazy-minded writers tries to create a character…

A moment of consideration

By Ashna Shareff: Often we compare our lives to those of others, and think how unfortunate is our life compared to someone who might be a complete stranger to us: artlessly, because we are deceived by the way we see them and believe them to be. We habitually forget to value and grasp the beauty of our…

Nationality, Culture, Religion: Time and Place

Shwan Dizayee

By Shwan Dizayee: As night falls on this side of the world, tomorrow begins on the other. Going into the usual deep thought before bed, I realise that the only difference between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ is Time and Place. With time often comes different intensities of growth, wisdom, maturity, understanding and progression. With place comes…

Is there any peace talk in Turkey?

Ahmet-Abidin-Özbek

By Ahmet Abidin Ozbek: Today people need peace more than anything else. It is as essential as bread, water or milk. It is important because, if there is no peace, there will be continuous conflict in all areas of life. For stable peace, the government has the most responsibility. Peace and progress are mutually connected….

Blind, deaf and dumb faith and billions of missing links

By Dr F R Hilmi: The biggest argument against the existence of God is the fact that we cannot see or sense him and what we know about religion’s God is based on blind faith and ancient tales we are warned against questioning or disbelieving or even asking for evidence to support. Then a man…

Hope?

By Ashna Shareff: Only when I believe, I can achieve. As I take myself back a year and a half, to when I was walking on the streets of this city with no hope of the world in my heart, a glimpse of sad days passes in front of my eyes like a movie. A…

The life of a Peshmerga

By Ashna Shareff: They are old in age, but young in heart. Life is a sequence of endless struggles, fights, endless pains that take over our hearts as years pass and we grow old. Each one of us experiences life in different ways.  We often tend to analyze life, doing our best to inhabit a…

About our human nature

By Ahmet Abidin Ozbek: Part 2 of 2 “If we don’t know the past we don’t understand the present and we cannot try to influence the future”.Orianna Fallaci For thousands of years we have tried to answer questions about our existence. Perhaps more than ideology, science, dialectics, and even  nationality, religion has – from an…

About our human nature

By Ahmet Abidin Ozbek: Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are – Jose Ortega y Gasset Part 1 (of 2) Among the most influential subjects in human society are religion, nationalism and our ideological differences. Unfortunately, these subjects are also reasons (you can say like poison) for humans…

Secularism, religion and women’s rights: a suggestion

By Razaw Abas Salihy:  The reason we have human rights is to protect every individual in society, whether they’re part of a group or not. Individuals are very often part of two parallel groups within a society e.g. female and Muslim. Therefore, it would make no sense for rights to have a hierarchy of importance,…

Death, a curse or blessing?

By Ashna Shareff:  As I walked in, my eyes were blinded by the black blush everywhere. I could see only black walls, black stains and people dressed in black. All I could hear was the sound of women crying. I knew they were sounds of anguish, sounds of women in pain and grief. I could hear…