A popular Syrian intellectual responds to questions on the Syrian conflict and the west. Throughout, Yassin confronts and reframes several western fears and constructs about Islamists, intervention and the development of the uprising.
The Assad killing machine, which was overwhelmingly nonchemical to begin with, can continue unfettered on its rampage. The killing fields of Syria – no end in sight.
Fred Halliday, who died on 26 April, talks to Danny Postel about realpolitik, religion, universal rights and the pitfalls of the Left. He discusses the need to combine solidarity with critical distance, to know what is really happening in Third World countries. This interview, published in Salmagu
Hossein Derakhshan's article in openDemocracy ("Ramin Jahanbegloo: the courage to change", 4 September 2006) recalls nothing so much as Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness
Open Letter to President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
CC: Chief Justice, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Mr President Ahmadinejad:
We the undersigned appeal for the immediate,
Francis Fukuyama's name is once again everywhere. His latest book (titled America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy in the United States, After the Neocons:
Conscripts of modernity: the tragedy of colonial enlightenment
by David Scott
Duke University Press | November 2004 | ISBN 0822334445
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Recommended by Danny Postel: This book is
The Iraq war opened a fratricidal split among United States neo–conservatives. Danny Postel examines the bitter dispute between two leading neocons, Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer, and suggests that
Are the ideas of the conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss a shaping influence on the Bush administrations world outlook? Danny Postel interviews Shadia Drury a leading scholarly critic of
