The five-day festival passed off “peacefully”, without the violent assertion of the right to be offended.
Could Greece, through democratic elections, become for Turkey what Tunisia became for Egypt in 2011 through mass protests?
Mutual recognition between people and cultures moves in mysterious ways, the cartoon its Rorschach test.
It is important to stop perpetuating misconceptions about the current crisis (i.e., that it’s a sectarian conflict or proxy war among Iran and Saudi Arabia) that make for a good – albeit largely unfounded – story.
In fact, the removal of the ‘duty to promote community cohesion’ in schools from the UK's Ofsted inspection regime sent a very clear signal.
The foot soldiers of American law enforcement should not seek to cast blame on politicians and protesters. Instead they should look to the gilded system which has placed them in the line of fire.
Perhaps paradoxically, Greece’s real problem is primarily political, not economic, and its name is “populism.”
Why should Australia acknowledge its bloody past on Australia Day? Firstly, this is a fundamental question of dignity.
This piece aims to provide the minimum necessary background to understand recent and forthcoming events in a rapidly changing situation in Yemen.
Perhaps it is not the Muslim communities of France that must change, so much as the notion of laïcité.
Instead of distancing ourselves from terrorist crimes, as progressive Muslims we should confront the ultra conservative, violent Wahhabi/salafi version of Islam that is practised by both professional terrorists and despotic nations like Saudi Arabia.
