Linda Tugurian is a science and environmental educator with over 25 years experience in the public schools of North Carolina. She currently serves as a District Science Specialist in Durham Public Schools, advocating for science students and teachers throughout the District. She received her PhD in Science Education from North Carolina State University and holds National Board Certification in Early Adolescence Science.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?When bully boys dictate the West’s agenda, Turkey invades Syria with impunityHow can bully boys and aggressors label a resistance movement ‘terrorist’ when the whole question of Turkey’s accession to the EU turned around its democratic deficits?
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Published in: 50.5070 years after partition: is India, like Pakistan, turning to religious extremism?Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar's brave new documentary, Azmaish, looks at retreats from liberal democracy on both sides of the border.
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Published in: 50.50The right to blasphemy: is this the boundary between civilisation and barbarism?Former Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui collects fatwas like badges of honour. Her recent book outlines similarities between the Islamic and European far right.
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Published in: 50.50“I don’t want to die because I’m an atheist”: ex-Muslims speak outIn the UK and beyond, filmmaker Deeyah Khan has documented the experiences of ex-Muslims and the “extraordinary levels of persecution, abuse and discrimination they face”.
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Published in: 50.50Surviving a machete attack: the story of Bangladeshi-American freethinker Bonya AhmedThe growth of religious fundamentalist forces in Bangladesh poses life-threatening challenges to atheists and secularists.
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Published in: 50.50Where is the line between Islam and Islamism?A recent conference on freedom of expression threw up issues around relationships between ex-Muslims and reformist Muslims – and the ideological confusion of their allies.