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.
(b.1956) is a writer and journalist and lives in Mexico City. His novel El testigo (Editorial Anagrama, 2004) won the Herralde Prize.
On a divided country and its discontented Left
In December 2006, Felipe Calderón was sworn in as Mexico's new conservative president. But with accusations of electoral fraud hanging over him, Calderón is the least-supported president in Mexico's history. [Hungarian version added] [more]
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