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This week's window on the Middle East - March 18, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, The second anniversary of the Syrian uprisingThe second anniversary...
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From Iraq to Hacked Off – ten years of Britain trying not to change
Still they continue to caricature and minimise the opposition at the time as they sense the threat to the balance of power. But the fact is this. Without the battering ram of the Murdoch press...
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Shocked but not Awed – openDemocracy and Iraq
Soon after it started openDemocracy was plunged into the war on terror and the preparations for the Iraq war. They defined its editorial approach. oD's founding editor looks back to argue that so much...
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Only ten thousand to go
There is £10,000 to go in our campaign to keep oD open. With the reminder of openDemocracy's early foresight on the Iraq war, our Editor-in-Chief asks you to walk with us over the finishing line. When...
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An Albanian crossing borders
“Are you saying that Le Pen has a branch even in Albania?!” – intervened the one who had found the envelope. “Yes, sir,” - I answered. “As I just said, Albania is now a free country.”In December 1991 I...
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Armenia's election message
A flawed presidential vote that confirms the incumbent in power also exposes anew the dysfunction of democracy in post-Soviet states, says Krzysztof BobinskiAn election in Armenia, as in other...
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CSW on balance: did we win?
There is much to celebrate from this year’s CSW, but the failure to call for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls to be included as a priority in the post 2015 framework,...
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The humanitarian industry and urban change in Goma
Integrating into the urban landscape, the humanitarian sector has contributed to various processes of transformation in Goma. While creating new opportunities, their presence has reinforced patterns of...
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Iraq: ten years of hubris and incompetence
Many of the problems that afflict Iraqis today are rooted in the rushed and undemocratic constitution of 2005, says Zaid Al-Ali. Ten years after the 2003 war, the Iraqi government credits itself with...
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Iraq, a war foretold
The gap between the invaders' expectations and the reality that emerged in Iraq was immense. But even as the ground war opened on 20 March 2003, there were clear indications of the carnage to come. The...
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Assez de ces 'sauts de foi' européens
L'avenir de l'Europe ne repose pas sur un marché global auto-destructif, ni sur une Europe allemande rénationalisée. Il nous faut une Europe politique agissant dans l'intérêt commun tant au niveau...
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Radioactive Y-fronts and the limits of Parliamentary scrutiny
This week the nuclear industry and its Westminster friends celebrated the dawning of a new age, as French energy giant EDF won planning consent to construct Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Meanwhile, in...
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Weaponising workfare
Workfare recognises a reality that the TUC and many on the left haven't - our current model of production, from a social perspective, is crumbling. Make workfare a weapon for change. The potential list...
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Aesthetics in cartography: a more democratic access to information?
Can atlases serve to empower those at the bottom of the pyramid, permitting an understanding of historical change, social developments and a more critical awareness of regional, national traditions and...
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The future of Europe: or how to burst the bubbles around our heads?
Choosing a new path for development based upon self-reflection only happens rarely in history. This would be impossible without a fundamental shift in the self-perception of the vast majority of...
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Exposing the Big Lie at the heart of this economic catastrophe
Budget week thoughts: The people who got us into this fix are holding the world to ransom by their speculative lunacy and greed. The big brake is not government debt.Whole sections of the 'west' are in...
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Will academia ever graduate from sexism?
From the sexism of fresher’s week to under-employment after they graduate, to the closed walls of the highest echelons of academic institutions, Britain is failing its female students - even as their...
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Toxic images or imaging the other
Photo essay: In the aftermath of the Toulouse killings of March 2012, the French state projected a set of 'toxic images' clearly demarcating the republic's enemy in young, muslim men. Click here for...
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Turkey's growing constitutional conundrum
Why does Turkey need a new constitution and what makes it so difficult to draft one?Turkish PM Recep Erdogan gives a speech in Istanbul. Demotix/ Sadik Gulec. All rights reserved.In the run-up to the...
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Abkhazia: recognising the ruins
The frequent conflicts in Abkhazia have devastated the landscape. Tourism could be encouraged by restoring some of the old buildings, now in ruins, but ownership is often unclear, so they remain a...
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