Pernilla Ouis and Anne Sofie Roald adopted the headscarf back in the 1980s at the same time as political Islam began to grow. Now they are part of a global trend towards secularisation in which more and more women are shedding their headscarves and veils. [ more ]
"Critique & Humanism" takes a neighbourly view on Turkey; "dérive" doesn't play ball; "Reset" picks up the pieces after Veltroni's defeat; "Multitudes" joins the carnival; "The Hungarian Quarterly" finds the country in a gloomy mood; "Mittelweg 36" asks what's in a friendship; "Revista Crítica" reads epistemologies of the South; "Springerin" sees the provincial in the universal; "Kulturos barai" watches patriarchs fall; and "Cogito" casts a tragic hero for our times.
is a journalist for Le Courrier des Balkans (http://balkans.courriers.info/).
Macedonian independence will not be the last time the former Yugoslavia is re-ordered. Decisions on Kosovo and the Republika Srpska are still to come. If it is not to descend into crude nationalism, Serbia needs a European perspective. [more]
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