Home Is Tucked Under the Smiling Sunflower Seeds
“Home.” It’s a word that is thrown so lightly around in our daily conversations yet always carries weight…
Turkey
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Rising from the Ashes
2023 marks a full decade since the beginning of the unprecedented persecution of the Hizmet movement started in…
Where am I From?
Following a soft negotiation of price with the rickshaw driver, I finally had initiated my way back home…
Editorial (Issue 133): Everything Has a Home
Almost all living creatures have a home of sorts. It is a land that is familiar to us…
Hizmet Is a Social Movement
Hizmet Movement (aka Gülen Movement) has always been given different names, which rely on and point to divergent…
Demise of Academia: A Sad Case Which Should Not Have Been in the 21st Century
Being an academic is not an easy thing. In many countries, it seems you are always between a…
Pain Doesn’t Differ: Turkish Refugees Help Greek Fire Victims
Gasparetto (not his real name)[1] was a young Turkish medical student when he was arrested and imprisoned for…
What Went Wrong With Turkey?
Asli recounts how her mother-in-law recently caught her six-year-old son stealing a pomegranate from the neighbour’s tree. When…
The Turkey I No Longer Know
The Turkey that I once knew as a hope-inspiring country on its way to consolidating its democracy and…
Fethullah Gülen Is One of the Most Distinguished Islamic Scholars of Our Century
The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, “Scholars are heirs of the prophets.” The Islamic intellectual, the…
Hizmet Is a True Embodiment of the Islamic Ideals of Love and Service to the Other
I have seen many un-Islamic cults play out in the word today: ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabab. Hizmet…
What On Earth Has Gone So Wrong in Turkey?
Six months on from the mysterious coup attempt of July 15, the situation in Turkey has become much…
African-Americans, Turkey, And Hizmet
The story of African Americans and their encounter with Islam in the twentieth century is a fascinating American…
Ghana and More
The Fountain was among the organizers of an important conference in Ghana. Many participants described the conference as…
Promoting Global Fellowship around the Kitchen Table
As a child growing up in rural Illinois in a small farm town, I only dreamt that I…