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Sarah Lindon

Sarah Lindon is a Commissioning Editor at openDemocracy.

Recent articles


Wrapping the renga

Sarah Lindon peels the layers of openDemocracy’s experiment in multi-voiced storytelling

Gendered states

Questions of culture hindering women’s political participation don’t just arise around tradition, custom and religion. They go to the heart of the state, says Sarah Lindon.

Words on images: the cartoon controversy

Across four days, twenty writers from ten countries assessed the political and cultural fissures opened by the row over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Sarah Lindon summaries and reflects on this openDemocracy feature.

Diversity in question

2005 has been a bad year for multiculturalism. Does it need to be reformed or replaced? Reena Bhavnani, Max Farrar, Judith Squires, and Sami Zubaida joined an openDemocracy / Open University panel to discuss living with difference. Sarah Lindon summarises a rich discussion which you can watch by webcast.

'High Tide: the truth about our climate crisis,' Mark Lynas

“How global warming is hitting people’s lives, not in the future, but in our world today”