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 former director of the New Publicity Project of the Soros Centre for the Arts in Sofia. He lectures in literary theory at the Kliment Ochridski University in Sofia.
After 1989, cultural periodicals could have played a crucial role in forming a public sphere in Bulgaria. Instead, they must fight for a share of the market alongside an opportunistic mass media. [more]
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