KA Dilday

KA Dilday worked on the New York Times opinion page until autumn 2005, when she began a writing fellowship with the Institute of Current World Affairs. During the period of the fellowship, she is travelling between North Africa and France. KA Dilday is currently planning a New York office for openDemocracy.

Nadia Yassine’s journey

In five weeks' time, Morocco goes to the polls. The country's 7 September 2007 election will be the second parliamentary vote since King Mohammed VI ascended to

By KA Dilday

/ 2 Aug 2007

The Copenhagen syndrome

Post-modern bourgeois liberals, to borrow a description of the late American scholar Richard Rorty, do not like to have their space violated by poverty. Let's call this aspect

By KA Dilday

/ 29 Jun 2007

Morocco outside in

No one is sure how many migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, documented and undocumented, live in Morocco but most every Moroccan is sure that it's too many. In 2005,

By KA Dilday

/ 14 Jun 2007

A girl, a knife, and Hawa Gréou

At the end of the last century Hawa Gréou spent five years in prison in France. Those years, she said, were the happiest of her life. She was able to

By KA Dilday

/ 30 May 2007

France's two worlds

The election of Nicolas Sarkozy is a sign of Frances divisions, its fears, its conservatism, and yet its hunger for change. KA Dilday measures a complex moment. There is

By KA Dilday

/ 7 May 2007

The discomfort of strangers

By now most people know that yet another American community was victim of a gun rampage. I cannot try to explain that tragedy beyond the tragic confluence of two truths:

By KA Dilday

/ 23 Apr 2007

The Darfur conundrum

On 31 March 2007, five African Union peacekeepers in Darfur were killed in the most fatal attack on them since the force arrived in the western province of Sudan in

By KA Dilday

/ 2 Apr 2007

The universitys freedom lesson

The University and College Admissions Services (Ucas) in Britain announced in March 2007 that the country's universities will now be supplied with information on whether a candidate grew

By KA Dilday

/ 22 Mar 2007

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

There is a moment in Ayaan Hirsi Ali's autobiography, Infidel, when she speaks on the phone to an old friend from Somalia, just after the terrorist attacks of

By KA Dilday

/ 6 Mar 2007

Iraqis adrift

Before the Iraq war began in 2003, Gil Loescher & Arthur C Helton's openDemocracy column warned that a likely result would be a huge flood of refugees. Four

By KA Dilday

/ 19 Feb 2007

Barack Obama, Moroccan Ali, and me

Might Barack Obama really have a chance at being United States president? In France, I'm often asked that question these days by blacks and beurs. France has very

By KA Dilday

/ 5 Feb 2007

Zidane and France: the rules of the game

The French football captain Zinedine Zidane's act of retaliation in the world-cup final was also an immigrant's declaration of independence from the country that reveres him,

By KA Dilday

/ 18 Jul 2006