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A television in dream-time, Desert to dreams & The darks

by Annie Finch

[ february 09 ]

General Zia has sabotaged the lawyers' movement from the grave

by Abbas Zaidi

[ december 08 ]

...and the politicians who have hijacked it remind Pakistanis of a time when human rights were totally ignored.

Conversations with a continent - Madagascar

by Ron Singer

[ may 08 ]

This spring, a series of panels of experts on Africa were held in New York. We present summaries of these panels.

The big steal in Zimbabwe

by Stephen Chan

[ may 08 ]

There are a lot of people running scared in ZANU-PF, and their time-honoured tactic is now to start running violent.

Conversations with a continent - Congo, South Africa & Angola

by Ron Singer

[ may 08 ]

This spring, a series of panels of experts on Africa is being held in New York. We present summaries of these panels.

A grain of dissimilarity

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ may 08 ]

In Greek legend a chimere is a fearful, fire-belching monster with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. For Haitians it means a gangster.

Making poor nations rich

review by Elisa Nay

"The best way to help the poor is to achieve as high a level of economic freedom as possible."

All the President's Men

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ march 08 ]

In Haiti, "unemployment is running at around 80%, corruption is so much a part of life that they might well hand out MBAs in it, and gangs like the Cannibal Army and the Little Machete Army still control the red zones."

The dubious world of religion and politics

by David V Barrett

[ january 08 ]

Which religious group really put George W Bush into the White House? The answer is not the usual suspects...

The AK Party, the failure of Islamism and traditional Turkish politics

by Ziya Meral

[ january 08 ]

How did the Western commentariat get the recent Turkish election so wrong?