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KA Dilday

KA Dilday is a France-based fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs. She covers integration and immigration in France and travels frequently to North Africa. She has written and edited for many American publications. Most recently she was an editor for the New York Times opinion page.

Recent articles


America's pious song and dance

The US presidential campaign reveals how central - and intractable - public piety is in American political life. Until other moral spaces are found, politicians and candidates will need to keep their ministers nearby, says KA Dilday.

The London - and Obama - effect: back to being black

It took a global village. KA Dilday, openDemocracy columnist, writes in the New York Times

The gaze of strangers: Morocco, male love and modernity

The new-media exposure of homosexual activity in the Muslim world highlights the paradoxes of its collision with modernity, says KA Dilday.

Language, immigration and citizenship

The acquisition of language skills in an unfamiliar world unlocks the door to belonging as well as opportunity, reflects KA Dilday after a Paris hospital experience.

Intelligence, inequality and race

Intelligence is more than skin-deep. KA Dilday, unimpressed by the IQ test, retraces her own journey to take a different measure of social outcomes.

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