In the third and final event in our ‘Tahrir Square Meme’ series, Charles Tripp, professor of middle east politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, will be exploring whether a new form of counter hegemony is emerging in the Middle East and its relationship to non-violence and politica
People still ask if they should come here. If it is safe. If it is Real any more. The answer is yes, to all three. And for the next two weeks nearly a million people will be here to take part in the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Bengal’s transition is from the mismanagement of a vanguard party to the misrule of the lumpenproletariat.
The Greek reality encourages an ‘every man for himself’ mentality in everyday life – which in turn opens the way to growing political extremism and further damages the social fabric of society. Only the people can counter this downward spiral, and some are doing so.
If an artistic institution connives in injustice, it must be permissible to call it to account without being labelled a Nazi, even if it is Jewish.
The core themes of a new book of Fred Halliday’s openDemocracy columns underline his work's enduring vitality, says David Hayes. [This article was first published on 23 March 2011}
Egyptian journalist Mona el Tahawy caused a twitter storm with her latest article in Foreign Policy: Why Do They Hate Us? Tom Dale deconstructs the piece, writing that there are deeper historical roots and that el Tahawy's argument "lacks the capacity to suggest effective solutions."
The legal procedure in the case of Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the Norwegian massacre of July 2011, is a case-study of democratic values - in particular, that democracy is not a "what" but a "how", says Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Derry/Londonderry is the UK City of Culture in 2013. In a place where names can be rigid markers of enmity, what tools can we use to dismantle the unseeing ways ‘the enemy’ is passed between generations?
The author is caught by his own consumption, and effects a narrow escape with the help of friends.
