Just how multicultural is the world of publishing and bookselling in the UK?
Interviews, LIP#4 Religion
Blue Thoughts
by Sharif Hamadeh • • 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.
Features, LIP#4 Religion, Politics
Can Muslims be Citizens in a Liberal Democracy?
by Maleiha Malik • • 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.
Features, LIP#4 Religion
Revelation Through the Airwaves
by Mel Bradshaw • • 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.
Features, LIP#4 Religion
Children of the Revolution
by Sharif Hamadeh • • 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.
Features, LIP#4 Religion
Life After Pinochet
by Bruce Douglas • • 0 Comments
Bruce Douglas reviews Chile’s efforts to investigate the dark past of a self-proclaimed ‘patriotic angel’
Books, Interviews, LIP#4 Religion
Hot Chocolate
by Alastair Mucklow • • 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’
Features, LIP#4 Religion
Dharma Police
by Mark Grimmer • • 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.
Features, LIP#4 Religion, Politics
The Long Good Friday
by John Bew • • 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?
Interviews, LIP#3 Immigration, Politics
Oppositional Progress: An Interview with Tariq Ali
by Omar Waraich • • 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.
Features, LIP#3 Immigration, Travel
Chhouk Rin: The KR Convict
by William Shaw • • 0 Comments
As a feared Khmer Rouge warlord, Chhouk Rin was renowned for his charisma and battlefield prowess. But those days are gone.
Features, LIP#3 Immigration, Travel
Crossing Borders: An African Journey.
by Sam Jeremy • • 0 Comments
Sam Jeremy travels across West Africa
Film and TV, LIP#3 Immigration
Motion Pictures of Moving People
by Nemonie Roderick • • 0 Comments
Paisà is being shown as part of a series of films complimenting this year’s Oxford Amnesty Lectures.
Features, LIP#3 Immigration, Politics
Time for a New Order
by Guy Goodwin-Gill • • 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.
LIP#3 Immigration, Theatre and Performance
Staging Cultural Prosperity
by Jon Refsdal Moe • • 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.
Books, LIP#3 Immigration
The real sound of the East End, innit?
by Hussain Ismail • • 0 Comments
Immigrants have always been the genuine voice of the East End