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Feminist voices in Islam: promise and potential
Religion is back in public space, and the thesis that modernization means the privatization of religion has been seriously questioned. Some religious and feminist dogmas need re-examination. What do...
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Votes for British prisoners: now is the time
The UK needs to bring forward plans to enfranchise prisoners by Thursday.The dilemma regarding the enfranchisement of prisoners is becoming a constitutional issue. There are two opposing moral...
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The not-very-convincing victory of Mr. Yanukovych
By means fair and foul, the ruling Party of the Regions came out top in Ukraine’s recent parliamentary election. President Yanukovych is far from home and dry, however: to control parliament he needs a...
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Britain’s great betrayal: some inconvenient truths about children’s health...
Leading politicians and health professionals meet in London tomorrow to discuss the future of child health in the UK. Ahead of the Westminster Health Forum seminar— ‘Improving children’s and young...
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Unwanted: a failed crossing from Damascus to Gaza
For Abu Khalil, at least Gazans have the honour of being terrorised on their own land. There were three more kilometers for Abo Khalil and his family to reach the Jordanian border. Members of an FSA...
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A non-violent 24-year old gets Sudanese intelligence mobilising
They pressured his father into revealing his whereabouts, warning that otherwise they would also arrest his younger brother M.As a member of the non-violent resistance movement in Sudan, “Girifna” (We...
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This week's window on the Middle East - November 19, 2012
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: A non-violent 24-year-old gets Sudanese intelligence mobilising A...
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Longing for ‘normality’: women’s experience of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
Returning to Bosnia-Herzegovina after 17 years, Cynthia Cockburn finds Bosnian women criticizing their country's nationalist political culture. Longing for civil 'normality', they hark back to the...
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Wait! Leveson must delay his report on the UK press
Lord Leveson's public inquiry into UK press standards is about to report. But the unfolding crisis shaking the BBC will muddy the waters. This is a call for delay.This is a plea to Lord Leveson not to...
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RuNet: Russia on the Chinese road?
A new internet law came into effect in Russia this month. Ostensibly designed to tackle extremist websites, the list of banned sites has already cast a much broader net. Things are likely to get even...
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The trouble with Fortress Europe
To prevent illegal immigration, the EU has built a set of far-reaching border control and enforcement policies. But it doesn't work: today's 'Fortress Europe' is an inefficient, immoral and costly...
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Spain: from ‘los indignados’ and ‘15 M’ to the first strike by society
400,000 evictions, a hunger strike by Carmen Armaña, and the suicide of Amaia Egaña as the eviction police came up the stairs to put her family out on the street, have brought mass anger and fury at...
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Walking the tightrope: Al Wefaq’s quest for relevancy in post-uprising Bahrain
A call for foreign intervention is a cry for help by an embattled opposition walking a shaky tightrope with a tough choice ahead.In a recent interview, Mr. Matar Matar, a US-based ex-MP belonging to...
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UK: the power of the women’s vote
Resistance to viewing women as a homogenous block can all too often provide politicians with an excuse to ignore women altogether. Women hold half the electorate’s voting power: which party will be...
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Change put on hold in Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan
President Nazarbayev has been head of state in Kazakhstan for 23 years (before, and since, independence in 1991). The 2011 election effectively confirmed his life tenure, which has put the country into...
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Gaza and Israel, the way ahead
The latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be traced to decisions made since 2004. Its solution lies in a recognition of strategic reality, says Eóin Murray.Some years ago, in Gaza, a journalist...
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Women bishops: rejection harms Church of England’s mission
One of the first women to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England bitterly regrets the General Synod’s vote against women bishops.My 12-year old daughter suggested yesterday that I should go...
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Israel and Gaza: from war to politics
A short armed conflict highlights vital longer-term shifts both in the military confrontation between Israel and Hamas, and in the balance of forces in the wider region.The concentrated week-long...
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Lobbyists and the Day of Rage
On the day that millions of anti-austerity demonstrators took to the streets across Europe, an official EU event took place on ‘engaging Europe’s citizens’. A troubled participant tells her story.All...
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Beyond Synod: Church and state need to be set free
The recent Church of England vote against women bishops underlines the urgent need to keep religion independent of the state. If there is one thing that might pleasantly surprise the Church of England...
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