Not to be confound to Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi (1207 - 1273)! Abu Zaid Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi (850-934), the Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.