----Original Message-----From: openDemocracy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 7:11 PM
To: john.armitage
Subject: Islam and Europe
In the first of a series of events on 'Europe and Islam', hosted by
theGoethe Institute, German-Iranian scholar Navid Kermani wryly explored the
collision of Islamic tradition with modernity as one key to 11 September:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=110&DocID=1106
On 6 March 2002, www.openDemocracy.net hosts the next event in the series,
at London's ICA, with the spotlight on women, Islam, and the modern world.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/dynamics/dynamic_website_document.asp?DocID=100
8&Action=DisplayPage
This week Caroline Moorehead spotlights Mohamed, a young fugitive from the
attentions of Iran's police force:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=120&DocID=1103
Paul Rogers, our unflinching international security correspondent, assesses
the likely consequences of a US attack on Iraq, and calls on Europe to find
its voice:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=103&DocID=1104
The death of radical French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, was the front-page
lead in Le Monde. Angela McRobbie pays tribute, while we publish his call
for a new politics to meet the challenge of globalisation:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=18&DocID=1102
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=18&DocID=1100
Distinguished political scientist Richard Rose says there is no time like
the present for the British government to hold a referendum on joining the
Euro currency:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=6&DocID=1105
Warren Peas, the Red Adair of nation-builders, jets into Kabul to repoint
the patio and trample mud into the carpets. openSatirist Dominic Hilton
surveys the rubble:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=102&DocID=1101
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