A gathering will consider the emergence of Englishness (or not)
The Chekhov house, garden and archive in Yalta is a site of unique international cultural importance. Short of funding, neglected and hit by a hurricane, it faced a gloomy future. A group of British actors, scholars and Chekhov enthusiasts set up the Anthon Chekhov Foundation, which both provided
If India and Pakistan were cut from the same geographic and ethnic cloth, with the same parliamentary-style system, why is India held to be a vibrant democracy today and Pakistan a political basket case?
openDemocracy's Discourses series is currently taking artistic submissions for our next event, The architecture of war, opening on January 6, 2011.
Security policy in Afghanistan may be powered by sublimated imperial nostalgia, but most of the really valuable practical memories and lessons of empire have long since been forgotten. A review of three recent books on the Taliban
A can of worms is opened at the 54th London Film Festival
Ghanaian feminist theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye speaks to Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah about religion, patriarchy and reinterpreting the Bible from a feminist perspective
The freeze to the BBC licence fee announced on Wednesday was a defeat for viewers and listeners, for BBC staff, for the independence of one of our most respected institutions, for the principles underlying the licence fee and for the whole of public service broadcasting.
In 2014 Russia will host the Winter Olympics in Sochi, once upon a time the capital of independent Circassia. The city has 20,000 Muslims, but no mosque. Sufian Zhemukhov considers the historical reasons for official antagonism to building a mosque and its implications for the Winter Olympics.
For almost a month, an armed conflict has been raging in the mountains of the Kamarob gorge between the forces of the Government of Tajikistan and local ‘mujohids’. This is the most serious political violence in Tajikistan for ten years. Here, in the first of a two-part article, Sophie Roche and J
We are all here to stay and we like it this way
A personal tribute to Claire Rayner, the 'agony aunt', novelist and broadcaster who died this week.
