Welcome to our Davos weblog, coming direct from the 2005 World Economic Forum. Throughout the week openDemocracy's correspondents will be writing about what they see, what they hear
We're here to report on what we see, what happens and what it means - or might mean.
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My first encounter with Father Christmas took place in the unlikely setting of Kabul. It was in the 1970s and my family and I were visiting my grandmother, who lived
In recent European debates on multiculturalism, Muslims have often appeared as the black sheep of the multicultural family. From the French schoolgirls who refuse to remove their veils to the
openDemocracy editors are concerned at the lack of public debate around the week’s revelations of a new phase in the surveillance state. Magnus Nome shows his editors and readers how ‘not to leave your own front door open’, while Rosemary Bechler returns for inspiration to the Convention on Modern
We have spent the week, poised between Europe and the Middle East, putting Gezi Park into perspective, with Nathalie Tocci concerned for Turkey’s democracy, Neophytos Loizides identifying a crisis of majoritarianism, and Ali Gokpinar, shining a spotlight on relations between by safesaver" href="ht
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Growing up in Kabul, my first encounter with monarchy was through Iranian magazines featuring large and colourful photographs of the Iranian royal family. But by the time these magazines had
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A couple of hours after the London bombings on 7 July 2005 a great number of self edited webpages - individual and corporate blogs alike - appeared on the Internet.
