Misunderstanding progressive population concern
The chief executive of Population Matters responds to Kalpana Wilson’s critique of neoliberal population control. Funding family planning in developing countries is a force both for social justice and...
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Egypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying
This bi-weekly Arab Awakening space is a holding operation on Egypt - excerpts from their articles, blogs and tweets - as people try to work out what is happening. The ‘You tell us’ feature offers...
View ArticleThe green machine of Copenhagen
When machines break down, don't throw them away, fix them. Anders Koefoed has declared war on “planned obsolescence.” This is the third video in our Everyday Stories series, showcasing people who are...
View ArticleMeditation on the Egyptian bloodbath
Most of Egypt’s allies - except notably for Turkey and Qatar - were clearly more comfortable with the military that promised “stability” than with the Muslim Brotherhood that had won the country’s...
View ArticleWho wants democracy in Egypt?
How can we make sense of the contradictory arguments? Who actually wants democracy in Egypt? Let’s review the positions of the three major actors in Egypt today. The recent news from Egypt is shocking;...
View ArticleNew nuclear weapons for the UK: a challenge Labour can’t dodge
Labour could turn opposition to the billion pound Trident replacement into an electoral asset, but instead appears to be sleepwalking to oblivion. Rebecca Johnson makes the case for challenging Trident...
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Changing three young Turkish lives
One of the greatest accomplishments of the protests, for these three individuals, was the chance to meet and experience unity with people from different religions, classes and ethnicities.A protestor...
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Making universalism resonate locally
To build support for human rights among the Israeli public, we need to not only address the public's political beliefs and security concerns, but also a much more fundamental critique of the human...
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This week's window on the Middle East - August 23, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week, Democracy's hall of mirrors in the post-Gezi world? A call for global...
View ArticleWhy resisting the trite formula is a matter of life and death in Egypt
A dictator never says that he is someone who oppresses freedoms, kills his opponents and abuses human rights. They all, regardless of time or place, speak about state security and maintaining...
View ArticleThe final brick in the wall of the security state?
Why the digital commentator and technology adviser this week decided to call on Obama, Cameron, Clegg and the other 'architects of oppression' to dismantle the security state, using a quote the full...
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Wild ghosts: Bo Xilai on trial
The trial of the disgraced Chinese politician is hurtling towards its predictable conclusion. But a spectre still haunts the Party, and all those at play in China’s political life. It is the spectre of...
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The protests in Turkey: urban warfare in 'rebel cities'
These are democratic protest movements in societies experiencing rapid change where the public’s demand for better services and more democracy at local as well as national levels grow at a faster pace...
View ArticleRed tape or a red rag?: the Equality Act in the UK
With austerity measures in full swing, the government's decision to review the duty on state and government bodies to proactively tackle women's inequality in the UK has raised alarm bells amongst...
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How to win friends and influence the new economy
Loneliness is as strong as smoking or alcohol abuse as an indicator of premature mortality. When Lisa Cook found she had no one to help her put her cat down, she decided to act. She joined a resilience...
View ArticleThe seeds of a movement: disabled women and their struggle to organize
Up against the male-centric nature of disability theory, and the slowness of women's movements and feminist scholars to address disability as a political issue, disabled women are laying down the basis...
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Beirut's schizophrenic identity
The Syrian civil war is spilling into Lebanon and drawing Beirut’s schizophrenic sectarian identity to the surface.War-torn Barakat building, Beirut.Since my first visit to Lebanon in 2009 I have been...
View ArticlePrivatised justice and erosion of democracy in the UK
Public service outsourcers G4S and Serco were caught overcharging taxpayers by tens of millions of pounds for tagging and monitoring offenders. What happened next?Justice minister Chris Grayling,...
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David Miranda: terrorist or tourist?
The debate roars on as Theresa May insists the detaining of our citizens is for our own protection, but how far and how deep can this controversy go?Flickr/ukhomeoffice. Some rights reserved.It was the...
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Your fatwa does not apply here
Democratic and secular voices in Muslim majority countries have too often been sacrificed by the left in the west in the name of anti-imperialism and identity politics. The authoritarian movements of...
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