An interview with Homi Bhabha
For journals, Europe as a concept is worthwhile only if conceived of as a threshold to be surpassed, Homi Bhabha argues in interview with Emrah Efe Çacmak. Their work is per se internationalist and has to link communities of intellectuals and activists around the world. [ more ]
"Index on Censorship" investigates what Bush-Cheney did to civil liberties; "Esprit" welcomes America's first Chicagoan president; "Arena" asks whether there will be a Left after capitalism; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) writes Bush's epitaph; "Samtiden" scrutinizes racism in Norway; "Dilema veche" calls for a debate on anti-Semitism in Romania; "Osteuropa" weighs up causes and effects of the Georgian war; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) reports on parallel realities in Israel; and "Magyar Lettre Internationale" prefers literary canons in the plural.
is the executive director of the international human rights group Article 19 (www.article19.org).
The action brought by Islamic groups against the French satirical paper "Charlie-Hebdo", after it reprinted the notorious Danish cartoons, recently fell through. Is free speech really in danger worldwide? [more]
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