Preti Taneja is a freelance writer and filmmaker. She has worked with young people from all over the world to help them use journalism and arts to explore their roots and heritage and get their voices heard in wider society. The Man Who Met Himself , co-written and produced by Preti, was the only British film to be nominated in the Short Film category at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
Read Anthony Barnett's lecture for the Raymond Williams Society and his foreword to the new edition of The Long Revolution:
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
