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Tahrir Square meme: Event
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.
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The Long and the Quick of revolution Anthony Barnett
We live in revolutionary times... but what does this mean? Anthony Barnett
The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy Guy Standing
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
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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















There is no such correlation, save in your mind. Christians are indeed persecuted across the Moslem World. As I have pointed out you are not allowed to build a church nor to hold a Christian act of worship in Saudi Arabia: in Egypt until very recently a church could not be built nor even repaired without the approval of the President. It is now the local Governor, but the effect is much the same. This does not apply to mosques. The list of such persecution is endless and surprising, even in a country like Turkey. The persecution is sometimes subtle, and quite often blatant as has been pointed out. But it is persecution nonetheless.