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Published in: Home‘I am an American’: living September 11, 2001, ten years onAn American professor of international relations who is also a documentary film-maker invites us to share in her...
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Published in: 50.50The dark side of democracy: autochthony and the radical rightRacialised and forced migrants are the spectre of the 'other' in the autochthonic dream of the 'pure' otherless...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Crises of Multiculturalism
Ironically, working through the idiom of multicultural failure is a form of political correctness; a way of talking...
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Published in: HomeTurkey's democracy, Europe's imperative
The result of Turkey's election creates a vital need to put the country's relationship with the European Union at...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: will democracy be good for women's rights?
History reveals an abundance of democratic paradoxes: cases in which progress on women’s rights regressed in the...
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Published in: HomeThe future of Islamophobia: the liberal, the Jew, the animalThe ritual slaughter of animals has become the last of many areas of contention that are changing the shape of our...
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Published in: HomeXenophobia and the Civilizing Mission
Europe’s civilizing mission is humanitarian - its duty to intervene to spread the good word, protecting the...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe coordinated attack on multiculturalism
Centre-right parties across Europe are announcing the failure of multiculturalism. We are witnessing a co-ordinated...
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Published in: HomeFrance's "Battle of the Veil"Many commentators have dismissed the French ban on wearing the niqab as a xenophobic reaction, writes Marie Gilbert....
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Published in: 50.50Jewish. Orthodox. Feminist. Israeli.
Orthodox Jewish feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as Cassandra Balchin discovers...
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Published in: 50.50Year of the boomerang? Frantz Fanon and the Arab uprisings
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas...
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Published in: HomeModerate secularism: a European conception
The question of religion’s place in modern secular societies is intellectually contested and politically divisive....
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Published in: HomeStates, religious diversity, and the crisis of secularism
In India, the existence of deep religious diversity has ensured a conceptual response not only to problems within...
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Published in: HomeMulticulturalism and the politics of bad memories‘Multiculturalism’ entails society offering a full range of prospects, membership, and respect to all its members –...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism and the soul of secularism
Secularism, as a concept, appears to be in danger from both the left and the right. Among feminists, it tends to be...
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Published in: HomePostmodern Islam and the Arab revolts
The emancipatory movements in the Arab world represent an inner shift in the self-understanding of Islam - one that...
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Published in: HomeA great change is sweeping Arab political culture
All Arab regimes, regardless of regime type, have essentially behaved like dynasties. This is why the essentially...
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Published in: 50.50Having our cake and eating it: British Muslim women
The arguments about family law rights in Britain's Muslim communities are bound up with racism and sexism. Those who...
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Published in: 50.50Pakistan: the liberals’ dilemma
During Zia’s years, liberal forces presented the most radical opposition to the theocracy-military collusion and...
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Published in: 50.50Critical intersections: the politics of gender and religion
Understanding the prominence of religions and their effects on the politics of gender defies facile explanations,...
