Speakers rightly fear misleading introductions, and so too should films. As an audience of scruffy aesthetes sucked on their complimentary ActionAid rock candy, a staffer of the Birds Eye View
Unofficial results are in from Pakistan's Monday election, and they don't make pretty reading for President Pervez Musharraf or his allies. With the bulk of the
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today in an attack that has sent shock-waves across the world. As she left a political rally in the northern town of
As an unfortunately-named Sudanese teddy bear hogs the headlines, you'd be forgiven for missing another controversial - but decidedly less tidy - story recently. Last week, with the
This week, Anthony Barnett and I attended an impressive conference in Washington, DC convened by the US foreign policy think-tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). "Overcoming
In the course of the discussions at this CSIS conference in Washington on Countering Extremism, other speakers have dipped into a key, but bitter debate in the study of terrorism:
As it occupies front-pages and spills rivers of ink across the world, the "Iran crisis" offers little hope for resolution. It remains a struggle of delicate posturing and
Gordon Brown's first visit as prime minister to the United States - where he shared a lunch of cheeseburgers and French fries with George W Bush - has
With Human Rights Watch releasing its scathing report on British counter-terrorist policy today, Manfred Nowak - the United Nations special rapporteur for torture - offers a bleak view of the
"Such is the miraculous nature of exiles," Salman Rushdie once wrote, that "what is uttered in the impotence of an overheated argument becomes the fate of nations&
In recent months, the spectre of Islamist violence has grown across North Africa. After enduring a brutal decade-long civil war, Algerian Salafist radicals have regrouped under the ominous banner of
Speaking last week at a ceremony for the late Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Afghan president Hamid Karzai ventured into the murky realm of cartography. He rejected the border
