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Highlighting the year's most significant independent journalism—including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories—Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024 illuminates issues and raises voices that the establishment press have throttled.Includes a Foreword by Alan MacLeod, independent investigative journalist and editor of Propaganda in the Information Age.State of the Free Press 2024 shows how independent journalism can promote civic engagement and reconnect people who have otherwise lost interest in sensational “news” that distracts and polarizes us.Balancing critical analysis with optimistic vision, the book's diverse contributors champion press freedom and critical media literacy to hold the powerful accountable and promote a more just and inclusive society.State of the Free Press 2024 is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press.

Merhum Prof. Dr. Mahmud Es'ad Coşan (Rh.a)'i 4 Şubat 2001'de Avustralya'da müphem bir trafik kazasında kaybettiğimizde yanında bir kişi daha vardı: Prof. Dr. Ali Yücel UYAREL. Merhum Es'ad Coşan hocaefendinin damadı olan Ali Yücel UYAREL, hayatı boyunca hizmet ettiği hocasına, ahiret yolculuğunda da eşlik etmişti. Uyarel; başarılı akademik hayatı esnasında çok sayıda talebe yetiştirmiş, diğer yandan birçok sosyal ve kültürel organizasyona rehberlik ederek, destek vererek gençliğe yol göstermiş, hayır kurumları içerisinde yer alarak hayatı boyunca içinde yaşadığı topluma hizmet etmişti. Buna rağmen mütevazı duruşunu ve istikametini hiç değiştirmemişti.'Üzengideki ayak'gibi hem koşan hem duran olmuştu. Vefatından sonra da'gülsuyundaki koku'gibi bir iz bırakmıştı. Her ne ki o şimdilerde'kitaptaki yazı'gibi ne susuyor ne de konuşuyor. Onun hayatına dair bir eser hazırlamak vefâdan öte onun gibi olmaya öykünmenin bir gereği olsa gerekti. Bu amaçla yola çıkıldı, talebeleri, yakınları, dostları, arkadaşları bildiklerini bir panelde dile getirdiler. Prof. Dr. Hür Mahmut YÜCER de siz değerli okuyucularımız için dile gelen anı ve hatıraları derledi. Merhum Es'ad Coşan Hocaefendi ve damadı merhum Ali Yücel Uyarel'e mevlâdan gani gani rahmetler diliyoruz.

This new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex region. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the break-away territories that have tried to split away from them constitute one of the most diverse and challenging regions on earth, impressing the visitor with their multi-layered history and ethnic complexity. Over the last few years, the South Caucasus region has captured international attention again because of disputes between the West and Russia, its unresolved conflicts, and its role as an energy transport corridor to Europe. The Caucasus gives the reader a historical overview and an authoritative guide to the three conflicts that have blighted the region. Thomas de Waal tells the story of the'Five-Day War'between Georgia and Russia and recent political upheavals in all three countries. He also finds time to tell the reader about Georgian wine, Baku jazz and how the coast of Abkhazia was known as'Soviet Florida.'Short, stimulating and rich in detail, The Caucasus is the perfect guide to this fascinating and little-understood region.

Azerbaijan, a souverain republic as broad as Austria and located on the Caspian Sea's western shore and sharing common borders with Russian Federation, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Iran. Having enjoyed a short-lived independence as intermezzo between 1918 and 1920, Azerbaijan was a part of Russian Empire and then one of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics for almost two centuries. While its history, political and economic culture of 19th and particularly of 20th century are intertwined with that of Russia, Azerbaijan shares common religious, language, literary and folk traditions with Turkey, neighboring Georgia and Armenia and particularly with Iran. It has a predominantly Shiite Muslim population and it's been independent since 1991.This new edition of Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan's independence came after seven decades of militant atheism of Soviet modernization project and emerged into staunch secularism of Western modernity, two factors that, on a par with the country's precarious neighborhood, promised a sustained indigenous effort towards the desacralization of the country's political space and the associated exclusion of religion from politics, a modern blueprint that the Azerbaijani state and its society have stood united to diligently follow over the cause of the country's independent existence. Yet the specific dynamics facing the country in the third decade of independence and the changing contours of its international engagements have gradually been working to set the country free from the stifling grips of Western-style modernity and lay the groundwork for quintessentially and esoterically Azerbaijani pathway of statehood to follow, one combining the nation's historical embeddedness in an Islamic milieu with its century-old practical experience of modern policy making.This book offers a detailed account of the dynamics behind the religious-secular divide in Azerbaijan over the past two decades of independence and the conditions underlying the ongoing process of normalization of Islamic discourse and the rising cooperation across the country's secular-religious political landscape and looks into some future dynamics this transformation is set to unleash. It begins with an outline of hybrid intentionality behind the elite's manifold attitudes to Islam, with particular focus on the strategy of separation between religion and politics in which those attitudes have found expression. It then proceeds to show the complicity of civil society and the broader populace, as well as the international community and the country's Islamic stratum itself, in the reproduction of the narrative of Islamic danger and the resultant religious-secular divide in post-Soviet Azerbaijan. The study then continues with an account of a number of dialectical tensions inherent in policy outcomes to which the hybrid nature of elite intentionality has given rise. It then follows on to discuss key factors contributing to the ongoing normalization of Islam across the public realm and the gradual bridging of the religious-secular divide amidst the ongoing state repression. The volume concludes with a comparative insight into some common features and conditioning factors behind the dynamics underlying the religious-secular nexus in Azerbaijan and across the broader region of the Middle East. It also offers an insight into some future potentialities that the current dynamics have laid bare.

Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan follows a newly independent oil-rich former Soviet republic as it adopts a Western model of democratic government and then turns toward corrupt authoritarianism. Audrey L. Altstadt begins with the Nagorno-Karabagh War (1988–1994) which triggered Azerbaijani nationalism and set the stage for the development of a democratic movement. Initially successful, this government soon succumbed to a coup. Western oil companies arrived and money flowed in—a quantity Altstadt calls'almost unimaginable'—causing the regime to resort to repression to maintain its power. Despite Azerbaijan's long tradition of secularism, political Islam emerged as an attractive alternative for those frustrated with the stifled democratic opposition and the lack of critique of the West's continued political interference. Altstadt's work draws on instances of censorship in the Azerbaijani press, research by embedded experts and nongovernmental and international organizations, and interviews with diplomats and businesspeople. The book is an essential companion to her earlier works, The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity Under Russian Rule and The Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920–1940.

The rights to free speech and expression are a vital part of any democracy. Balancing these rights with other priorities—such as national defense and the protection of minorities—is an ongoing struggle both in the United States and in democracies across the globe. The benefits of democracy can be found in every part of the globe. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist ideology in 1991, democracy has been touted as the only real answer to the world's challenges. At the same time, the true meaning of democracy has rarely been so extensively tested. Foundations of Democracy, will take a global view of the fundamental cornerstones of this form of government that Winston Churchill famously called “the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried.”