Punishing Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S. Navy
On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, thousands are commemorating the 10th anniversary of when the U.S. Navy stopped using their home as a bombing range. Since the 1940s, the Navy used nearly…
More than Meets the Eye. Emerging Dynamics in the Turkish-PKK Peace Process
Little over a month has passed since Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a historic call to his followers to lay down their weapons and engage in…
Women in Islam: the promises of citizenship between religious and civil reformism
In the current debate between East and West, and, in that between Islamists and secular people, the emphasis on Islam raises a fundamental question: Can Islam tolerate equality between sexes and can it…
Hefazat-e-Jamaat, Nothing Else : On the Recent Developments in Bangladesh
Kafila, May 14, 2013 “Talibaner aar ek naam – hefazat-e-Islam!” (Another name for Taliban, Hefazat-e-Islam) – Slogan raised at Shahbagh square To such a degree has Religion fuelled conflict, complicated politics, retarded social…
Aristide Zolberg and African Studies
In a 2010 interview, Aristide Zolberg—the pioneer Africanist political scientist who died on April 12 at the age of 81—described his early interest in the politics of a continent in the first throes…
Naya Pakistan, an old fable: Ayesha Siddiqa
Kafila, May 10, 2013. Guest post by AYESHA SIDDIQA: The renowned television anchor Quatrina Hosain was in tears. A day after the incident of her being sexually assaulted at a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI)…
Bangladesh, Global Capitalism, and the Garment Industry
As the death toll continues to rise in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster yet, we reproduce a previously published article on the global garment industry taking the examples of Bangladesh and Argentina. Readers should…
The Democratic Transition in Tunisia: How is it going?
We are living in a historic and crucial moment for the building of real, genuine, and lasting democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. This is something that many of us have…
Why France doesn’t want to let Aminata Traoré in and Germany allowed her only inside Berlin
Malian writer, activist, former member of government Aminata Traoré is unwelcome in France, and, thanks to the ‘open borders’ of the Schengen Area, she is persona non grata in pretty much all of…
CAOI convoca V Cumbre Continental de los Pueblos Indígenas
La Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas – CAOI, que agrupa a organizaciones de Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia y Perú, convocó a los pueblos indígenas del Abya Yala a la V Cumbre Continental de los…
