Eyes on the Umayyad Mosque: Lessons for budding strategists

For a fisherman on a tropical Indian Ocean coastline, a reddish hue on the horizon on specific evenings of the seasons tells the arrival of mackerel. By God-given instinct, this unlettered villager perceives his fortunes are on their way. In similar fashion, a sharp-witted person sees seismic socio-political activities as portents for major shifts. A sharp-witted mind possesses the ability to traverse beyond events and construct ideas based on the developments in the surroundings. Such a person would seek meaning for events, for instance, why Turkish Intel Chief, Prof. Ibrahim Kalin, emerged from his elusiveness, which he cleverly maintained after being appointed to lead MiT, and conducted an online introductory session on the world renowned Islamic philosopher, Seyed Naquib Al […]