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Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi is a veteran Arab and international diplomat and one of the symbols of the traditional Algerian political structure. As the UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria he is on a near impossible mission.
The Syrian people have found themselves saturated to the point of despair with international pronouncements and strategic stances that descend upon them from every corner. The United States warns, Turkey threatens, France alerts, China invites, and Russia hints.
The Arab Revolutions; What You Need to Know is at Southbank Centre on Saturday 15 September. Spend the day with activists and thinkers from the frontline of events, with up-to-the-minute
What if a feminist post-punk collective's action in Moscow could influence the cause of women everywhere, starting with protesters in Arab countries?
In the week of the ruling on Breivik’s sentence, we begin and end on what this means for Norway and the world. Robert Lambert looks at implications for security, Pål Grøndahl at what constitutessanity in the eyes of the law, while Kjetil Østli, who covered both the events and the trial, has writte
After being rather selective in its narratives of modern Syrian history, western coverage is now spreading plots about sectarian divisions in a future Syria that has freed itself from the grip of authoritarianism
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when crisis is upon them – quoting Jean Monnet, Somdeep Sen in our long-running ’Can Europe Make It?’ looks at the Spanish debt troubles, hoping for a blessing in disguise.
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s own strong man, it seems, is ill. Information is scarce, but it invites René Lefort to think about what might happen to the State and party that have become so reliant on his leadership. And what happens in Ethiopia matters - not just for its 86 million diverse inhabitants
In the world of high finance, central banks are being taken to task. In a milestone interview, Andy Haldane, Executive Director of Financial Stability at the Bank of England, tells William Davies, thatthe Bank should have understood what was going on – but didn’t.
Ash Amin and Pep Subirós have collaborated on several projects opposing social discrimination and exclusion, culminating in the Forum of Concerned Citizens of Europe. This week’s theme, Reinventing democracy in Europe, springs from a seminar hosted this May in the Centre for Contemporary Culture i
