After eighteen months of intensive planning clarifying ideas, fundraising, networking, discussion, administration, recruitment openDemocracy launched as a live website on 13 May 2001. The very first article we published was
Ali G, comedian
Ali G: Now, I's here in ditzy Clerkenwell, da home of lost causes, and I is speaking today to a group of five people who
The Clerkenwell area of London, a place rich in history - religious, architectural, literary, political - was openDemocracy’s home for eight years. From the archive, the itinerary of a guided tour around it made by the team in December 2001.
Jugha cemetery, 1970s © Argam Aivazian
Jugha cemetery, 1970s © Argam Aivazian
Jugha cemetery, 1970s © Argam Aivazian
Jugha cemetery, April 2006 © IWPR
It has become one of the most bitterly divisive issues
Ramona Lifting Weights (Ramona levantando pesas), Antonio Berni, 1963 © Estate of Antonio Berni
Antonio Berni (1905 1981) is regarded as one of Argentinas most influential artists.
His most famous
The Meeting (History of My Family Series, No. 7), Svay Ken We met only with our eyes, checking to see if the others were still alive by whether they were
Rwanda, 1994 © Alfredo Jaar These posters, scattered around the streets and squares of Malmo, reduced the rhetoric of advertising to a cry of grief. But they also served notice on
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Palestine: A Personal History
by Karl Sabbagh
Atlantic | March 2006 | ISBN 1843543443
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About the author: Karl Sabbagh is a British writer, journalist and television producer.
Hill and House, Jonathan Ofek. © Jonathan Ofek, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The "Mini Israel" exhibition runs from 24 March 15 July at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. For more information
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"Selected short stories"
by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by William Radice
Penguin Classics | ISBN 0140449833
Housewife
When we were two years or so below
Still from Iraq in Fragments, directed by James Longley. © James Longley 2006
"Iraq in Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled