with William Barnes: “Islamic Finance Sits Awkwardly in a Modern Business School.” Financial Times, July 21, 2013.
Category Archives: In the media
Interview: “Arap Baharı’nın Sonrası”
with Metin Under, “Arap Baharı’nın Sonrası.” Optimist, Mayıs 2013, 26-29.
Op-ed: “Arap Demokrasilerinin Zayıf Temelleri”
“Arap Demokrasilerinin Zayıf Temelleri,” Optimist, Kasım 2012, 92-93.
Interview: “Free Speech in the Islamic World”
with Toni Johnson, Council on Foreign Relations: “Free Speech and Muslim Unrest,” September 28, 2012.
Interview: “Crescent Moon Capitalism”
with Noah Blazer, “Crescent Moon Capitalism: Timur Kuran Weighs the Legacy of Islam’s Divergence from the West,” Today’s Zaman, June 28, 2012.
Policy brief: “Building Arab Civil Society to Promote Economic Growth”
“Building Arab Civil Society to Promote Economic Growth.” Addressing the 100 Million Youth Challenge: Perspectives on Youth Unemployment in the Arab World 2012, World Economic Forum, 4-6 June 2012, 15-17.
Radio discussion: “Middle East: Too Soon for Democracy?”
BBC Radio Analysis, moderated by Edward Stourton, “Middle East: Too Soon for Democracy?” Several participants, May 28, 2012.
Video interview: “Islamic Law and the Challenge of Democracy”
Istanbul Seminars, May 20, 2012: “Islamic Law and the Challenge of Democracy.”
Interview: “How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East”
Radio interview with David Inge, WILL am 580, Illinois Public Media, on “How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East,” April 9, 2012.
Podcast: “The Emergence and Initiatives of Islamic Economics”
with Anthony Gill (University of Washington), on the emergence and initiatives of Islamic economics, January 9, 2012.
Interview: “World Economic Crisis”
Interview on BBC Forum program podcast on “World Economic Crisis,” moderated by Bridget Kendall. Participants: Timur Kuran, Danny Quah (LSE) and Robert Skidelsky (British House of Lords), December 14, 2011.
Interview: “Why Can’t the Middle East Catch Up to the World’s Leading Economies”
Radio interview with Jerry Bowyer, The American Entrepreneur, November 10, 2011: “Why Can’t the Middle East Catch Up to the World’s Leading Economies.”
Op-ed: “Phase III of the Arab World’s Modernization: Building Accountability and Boosting Creativity”
Op-ed: “Phase III of the Arab World’s Modernization: Building Accountability and Boosting Creativity,” pp. 10-11 in World Economic Forum, 21 October 2011, The Compendium on Economic Governance in the Arab World 2011.
Op-ed: “The Weak Foundations of Arab Democracy”
“The Weak Foundations of Arab Democracy,” New York Times, May 28, 2011.
- French translation: “Démocratie Arabe : Des Fondations Fragiles.” Libre Afrique.
Book excerpt: “Long Divergence”
Excerpt of Long Divergence: Milken Institute Review, 13 (2011): 59-76.