In May 2006 at Wilton Park, a large government-owned country-house near England's south coast, officials from European Union countries met over two days with counterparts from countries with
Ehsan Masood: You believe Islam cannot be reduced to a single ideology, a set of rules and regulations that define everything from personal conduct to state power. At what point
It is morning and I am looking down from a balcony directly into the courtyard of the Noor school for the blind in Alexandria, Egypt. A group of boys dressed
At university, my passion was to probe the physics of the very small. I wanted to discover more about what scientists mean when they say that there is no such
Bottom-up. Community-based. Multi-stakeholder. Participatory. And now Everyday Democracy. The litany of descriptions seeking to convey the value of citizens' direct involvement in public life is proliferating.
At one time,
I am an occasional reader of Global Science, a mass-circulation monthly in Urdu published out of Karachi. It provides news and commentary on the world of science to a Pakistani
On 17 February, an imam at a mosque in Peshawar, northern Pakistan, offered a $1 million bounty to anyone who would kill one of the Danish cartoonists who had caricatured
Ismail Serageldin, judging by the after-midnight emails he fires off to his colleagues, doesn't get much sleep. More recently, the director of Egypt's national library in
It is an email subject-line I will never forget. "See: insulting photos of our beloved Prophet." The body of the message began: "To all Muslims, please see
America's scientists are at war with their own government. A rare, perhaps even an unprecedented spectacle and a shocking one. Why? Because scientists are meant to embody measured
In December 2005, a new prize was unveiled for leading young mathematicians from the developing world. The first Ramanujan prize went to Marcelo Viana, a professor at the Institute of
Size matters. This phrase, all of two words, sums up the world of the multilateral organisation. At its very simplest it means that richer, more developed countries have more influence
