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Published in: HomeFrance, Europe, and the Arab maelstromAn Arab world in transformation has found France’s elite shamed by its links with the old order. A control-freak...
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Published in: HomeArab insurgencies, women in transition
The waves of change in the Arab world have women at the centre. But how will they fare as revolt turns towards a new...
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Published in: HomePostmodern Islam and the Arab revolts
The emancipatory movements in the Arab world represent an inner shift in the self-understanding of Islam - one that...
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Published in: HomeThe “Islam” drumbeat: an Orwellian story
A reductive and tendentious portrayal of Islam and its followers is spreading across Europe and America. It is all...
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Published in: HomeThe intolerance of the tolerant
The advance of populist anti-Islamic forces in the liberal bastions of northern Europe - Denmark, the Netherlands...
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Published in: HomeEurope's Muslims: burqa laws, women's lives
Several European states - France, Italy, Belgium and Britain among them - are involved in legal, social or political...
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Published in: HomeThe Geert Wilders enigma
The high-profile Dutch politician Geert Wilders is closer to mainstream centre-right politics in the Netherlands...
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Published in: HomeAn east London election: politics and coercion
The dubious tactics used by some party campaigners in Britain’s general election need to be examined as part of a...
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Published in: HomeFrance's other worlds: burqa and abyss
The degrading realities of France’s survivalist economy put the country’s latest debate about Islamic apparel into...
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Published in: HomeFrance: identity in question
A "great debate" over French national identity is compromised by its politicised character and exclusionary...
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Published in: HomeBack to the future: the Danish cartoons, liberalism and global Islam
Muslim protests over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed marked the arrival of a force challenging liberal...
