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Truth and Reconciliation: a new political subjectivity for post-Yugoslavs?
'Truth and Reconciliation' is a paradigm entrapped within the limits of the existing state’s institutional framework, depending on the ‘good will’ of political elites, its truths depoliticised and...
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The creation of Palestinian citizenship under an international mandate:...
An internationally-recognised citizenship of the Arab Middle East designed during the era of mandates by the British came out of exclusively colonial processes, despite the fact that the British were...
View ArticleConflicting accounts of death at a London immigration lock-up
Inmates at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre claim employee of commercial contractor GEO beat immigration detainee and left him naked in an unheated room. Police say there are no suspicious...
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Radio Liberty making waves: have no lessons from the past been learnt?
The imminent withdrawal of Radio Liberty from medium wave broadcasting has dented the image of American public democracy, which is perceived as kowtowing to the autocratic will of the Kremlin. The...
View ArticleEgypt's draft constitution: an analysis
The text of the Egyptian state's new constitution is reaching a critical juncture. How does it measure up to fundamental rights and principles, and accord with recent constitutional practice elsewhere...
View ArticleHoping for a middle path in the US
After all, the exaggerated chasm created between the Republicans and Democrats is a pre-election political propaganda whipped up by a few irrational melodramatic extremist troublemakers.I am a recent...
View ArticleAmerica's election and remote control
Barack Obama's victory over Mitt Romney creates limited space for movement in Washington's domestic and foreign policy, including over climate disruption. But the dynamics of its new style of war also...
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Jalila Khamis: the high price of courage
"My children's life turned to hell for the past 9 months, they refused to celebrate the Eid, it is the second one without me" - Jalila Khamis, held in detention in Umdorman, Sudan "Freedom for...
View ArticleA new dawn in Saudi?
Two men are now heading the virtual entirety of the Kingdom’s intelligence gathering apparatuses. MbN’s control over the Mubahith (secret police) and Bandar’s control over the Mukhabarat will link them...
View ArticleForced evictions, racist attacks. Meet the new landlord, security company G4S
The UK government has created a new profit source for security giant G4S and its partners: managing housing for asylum seekers. John Grayson reports on a reckless experiment whose result is human...
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Migrants as activist citizens in Italy
In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy, initiating a new cycle of struggles in the crisis of neoliberalism. Their contestation of an exclusionary, racialized and...
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British-Muslim family law and citizenship
Muslims in Britain marry, divorce, bring up their children and deal with death by resorting to a variety of norms such as Sharia law, English family law and customary law. The sole legal framework of...
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Art and Property Now: Room 4: The Vertical Line – Radio Edit
Art and Property Now is an exhibition exploring John Berger’s life as storyteller, artist and critic. Visit the Inigo Rooms, Somerset House, London, until November 10, 2012. We have celebrated Berger’s...
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Legitimating immigration regimes in the European Union
The threat that immigration poses to so-called western democratic values is increasingly the subject of neo-orientalist public discussion: it willingly refers to the (often Muslim) migrant as a...
View ArticleIsrael's champion of lawmakers
The man who defeated Zvulun Orlev for the leadership of Jewish Home doesn't have his legislative experience.The ballots cast for president of the United States commanded the attention of most Israelis...
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Four more years - but what will Obama do with them in the Middle East?
Will Barack Obama finally deliver on his promises of peace and better relations with the Middle East? His re-election certainly offers him a second chance - don't waste it this time Mr...
View ArticleG4S loses contract. Handing prisons to any commercial contractor is a grave...
The big news story is that G4S, the shambolic security company that botched the London Olympics, has today lost a major prison contract (HMP Wolds, in Lincolnshire), and failed to win any new ones. A...
View ArticleThe politics of aid: pie in the sky or feet on the ground?
Aid is spent in situations of uncertainty, with conflict and insecurity key outcomes as well as drivers of poverty. With aid facing increasing domestic pressures from donor countries, there is a danger...
View ArticleAmerica's election and the Tea Party
A series of voting setbacks in November 2012 means the conservative Tea Party movement is now facing a difficult and divisive period, says Cas Mudde.What a difference two years make.After the...
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Kanak Attak: discursive acts of citizenship in Germany
Kanak Attak in Germany is an anti-racist collective of people with mixed ethnic backgrounds who aim to turn the dominant discourse on migration upside down. They invite us to consider the role of...
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