global village

In a fractured, disconnected world, a humane voice of engagement. In a fortnightly reflection, KA Dilday writes of encounters and explorations in the Arab and Muslim worlds, Latin America and Africa.
Friday 28th October

Occupy Wall Street: where are the migrants?

Shilpa Kameswaran, 28 October 2011
The lack of demographic diversity amongst the protestors and uncertainty about their demands make Occupy Wall Street difficult to take seriously, argues Shilpa Kameswaran from a migrant's perspective
Monday 15th December

Chicago: tale of two cities

Charles Shaw, 15 December 2008
Obama's success and Blagojevich's shame flow from the two wrestling motifs of Chicago's history. Plus: Big Think discusses the possibility of urban renewal in a time of recession.
Wednesday 30th January

The gaze of strangers: Morocco, male love and modernity

KA Dilday, 30 January 2008
The media exposure of homosexual activity in the Muslim world is filled with paradox
Tuesday 4th December

Language, immigration and citizenship

KA Dilday, 4 December 2007
For immigrants, the door of belonging is opened by language
Wednesday 7th November

Intelligence, inequality and race

KA Dilday, 7 November 2007

A Mississippi-New York journey, or how intelligence is more than skin-deep

Wednesday 17th October

Defenders of the nation

KA Dilday, 17 October 2007

Post-colonials in power reinforce Europe's national-identity narratives

 

Friday 21st September

Morocco’s illusory democracy

KA Dilday, 21 September 2007

What does enduring powerlessness do to a country's citizens?

 

Thursday 2nd August

Nadia Yassine’s journey

KA Dilday, 2 August 2007

The charismatic reformist Islamism of Nadia Yassine seeks a new path for Morocco's poor

Friday 29th June

The Copenhagen syndrome

KA Dilday, 29 June 2007
Can the radius of empathy be extended to include "others" in pursuit of a more inclusive "we"?
Thursday 14th June

Morocco outside in

KA Dilday, 14 June 2007
An inflow of sub-Saharan Africans is forcing Moroccans to look behind as well as over to Europe
Wednesday 30th May

A girl, a knife, and Hawa Gréou

KA Dilday, 30 May 2007
A Malian woman's story of genital mutilation lies at modern Europe's nerve-ends, says KA Dilday
Monday 7th May

France's two worlds

KA Dilday, 7 May 2007
The election of Nicolas Sarkozy is a sign of France’s divisions, its fears, its conservatism, and yet its hunger for change. KA Dilday measures a complex moment.

There is a particular type of French boy who irks me. I don't often see him in my own neighbourhood on the edge of what is sometimes called Paris's "little Africa", a bustling mix of Maghrebis and sub-Saharan Africans. This boy has paler skin than that crowd. I usually see this boy on the left bank, in the 7th arrondissement. He can be between 15 and 18.

Monday 23rd April

The discomfort of strangers

KA Dilday, 23 April 2007
How do western societies accept outsiders into their midst? KA Dilday reflects on one dimension of the Virginia Tech massacre.
Monday 9th April

Africa and HIV/Aids: men at work

Patricia Daniel, 9 April 2007
A self-education in positive masculinity is at the core of efforts to contain the spread of HIV/Aids, writes Patricia Daniel.
Monday 2nd April

The Darfur conundrum

KA Dilday, 2 April 2007
French and other European intellectuals are mobilizing for intervention in Darfur. Who are they really writing about, asks KA Dilday
Thursday 22nd March

The university's freedom lesson

KA Dilday, 22 March 2007
The pressure on universities to manage and monitor their charges in the wider social interest is in tension with their role as incubators of civic virtue, says KA Dilday.
Tuesday 13th March

Justice, not globalisation: Lebohang Pheko's voice

Patricia Daniel, 13 March 2007
European Union pacts with poor nations push the dispossessed further to the periphery. There is a more humane route to development, trade-policy specialist Lebohang Pheko tells Patricia Daniel.
Tuesday 6th March

Sister in spirit: Ayaan Hirsi Ali's 'Infidel'

KA Dilday, 6 March 2007
The Somali-Dutch dissident’s critique of Islam resonates with KA Dilday’s experience of fundamentalist Christianity in the American south. But their distance lies also in the journey beyond.
Friday 23rd February

Women, violence and empowerment: the world we live in

Patricia Daniel, 23 February 2007
The systemic, worldwide degradation of girl children makes the Commission on the Status of Women meeting at the United Nations a vital event, says Patricia Daniel.
Monday 19th February

Iraqis adrift

KA Dilday, 19 February 2007
The scale of Iraqis' displacement matches the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. In addressing it, Sweden shames the American architects of war, says KA Dilday.
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