In five weeks' time, Morocco goes to the polls. The country's 7 September 2007 election will be the second parliamentary vote since King Mohammed VI ascended to
Post-modern bourgeois liberals, to borrow a description of the late American scholar Richard Rorty, do not like to have their space violated by poverty. Let's call this aspect
No one is sure how many migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, documented and undocumented, live in Morocco but most every Moroccan is sure that it's too many. In 2005,
At the end of the last century Hawa Gréou spent five years in prison in France. Those years, she said, were the happiest of her life. She was able to
The election of Nicolas Sarkozy is a sign of Frances divisions, its fears, its conservatism, and yet its hunger for change. KA Dilday measures a complex moment.
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By now most people know that yet another American community was victim of a gun rampage. I cannot try to explain that tragedy beyond the tragic confluence of two truths:
On 31 March 2007, five African Union peacekeepers in Darfur were killed in the most fatal attack on them since the force arrived in the western province of Sudan in
The University and College Admissions Services (Ucas) in Britain announced in March 2007 that the country's universities will now be supplied with information on whether a candidate grew
There is a moment in Ayaan Hirsi Ali's autobiography, Infidel, when she speaks on the phone to an old friend from Somalia, just after the terrorist attacks of
Before the Iraq war began in 2003, Gil Loescher & Arthur C Helton's openDemocracy column warned that a likely result would be a huge flood of refugees. Four
Might Barack Obama really have a chance at being United States president? In France, I'm often asked that question these days by blacks and beurs. France has very
The French football captain Zinedine Zidane's act of retaliation in the world-cup final was also an immigrant's declaration of independence from the country that reveres him,
