Books, Features, LIP#4 Religion

Turning Over a New Leaf

by Alastair Mucklow • October 3, 2004 • 0 Comments

Just how multicultural is the world of publishing and bookselling in the UK?

Blue Thoughts

by Sharif Hamadeh • October 3, 2004 • 0 Comments

Rabbi Lionel Blue has become a household name in the UK through his contributions to ‘Thought for the Day’ on Radio 4. In an interview with Sharif Hamadeh, he discusses the complexities of religion and politics in the contemporary world.

Can Muslims be Citizens in a Liberal Democracy?

by Maleiha Malik • October 3, 2004 • 0 Comments

The concern of Multiculturalism is not limited to the protection of individuals against specific instances of discrimination but it also extends to ensuring the flourishing and survival of diverse groups.

Revelation Through the Airwaves

by Mel Bradshaw • October 3, 2004 • 0 Comments

Mel Bradshaw discusses how one man’s determination brought hope to thousands in the darkest corner of Africa and earned him the One World Broadcasting Trust’s Special Award in June this year.

Children of the Revolution

by Sharif Hamadeh • October 3, 2004 • 2 Comments

A rented apartment in Brooklyn, New York became the hub of an international Muslim-Jewish dialogue and photographic project this summer when two graduate students launched Children of Abraham 2004 online.

Life After Pinochet

by Bruce Douglas • October 3, 2004 • 0 Comments

Bruce Douglas reviews Chile’s efforts to investigate the dark past of a self-proclaimed ‘patriotic angel’

Hot Chocolate

by Alastair Mucklow • October 3, 2004 • 0 Comments

‘I see organized religions as incredibly oppressive, particularly for women… I think many women and men are disturbed by the Church’s hypocrisy when it comes to sexuality’

Dharma Police

by Mark Grimmer • October 3, 2004 • 0 Comments

In the 90’s, the Chinese government’s crackdown on Falun Gong was well documented but more recently such human rights abuses have passed relatively unobserved by the western world.

The Long Good Friday

by John Bew • October 3, 2004 • 0 Comments

After all the optimism and excitement surrounding the Good Friday Agreement – for which 72% of the population voted in favour – where did the political process come unstuck?

Oppositional Progress: An Interview with Tariq Ali

by Omar Waraich • March 2, 2004 • 1 Comment

As we spoke desultorily for over an hour at his office in Soho, it was impressed upon me – by this amalgam of political commentator, activist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, broadcaster and powerful orator – that nothing is sacred and there can be no room for dogmas.

Chhouk Rin: The KR Convict

by William Shaw • March 2, 2004 • 0 Comments

As a feared Khmer Rouge warlord, Chhouk Rin was renowned for his charisma and battlefield prowess. But those days are gone.

Crossing Borders: An African Journey.

by Sam Jeremy • March 2, 2004 • 0 Comments

Sam Jeremy travels across West Africa

Motion Pictures of Moving People

by Nemonie Roderick • March 2, 2004 • 0 Comments

Paisà is being shown as part of a series of films complimenting this year’s Oxford Amnesty Lectures.

Time for a New Order

by Guy Goodwin-Gill • March 2, 2004 • 0 Comments

The UK’s so-called ‘New Vision for Refugees’ proves itself woefully inadequate, for it is not about solutions to a problem of international dimensions, so much as a self-regarding and self-interested attempt to minimise this country’s role, at the expense of refugees, asylum seekers, and less well off countries in the developing world.

Staging Cultural Prosperity

by Jon Refsdal Moe • March 2, 2004 • 0 Comments

There is general agreement now that culture is capitalism. Whether their value is financial or symbolic, the processes and products of cultural expression are widely acknowledged as submitted to an advanced network of capital transactions. The processes of global capitalism have long since invaded the sphere of artistic production.

The real sound of the East End, innit?

by Hussain Ismail • March 2, 2004 • 0 Comments

Immigrants have always been the genuine voice of the East End