Editors' Blog

Protesters arrested in Baghdad

Urgent Call for the Release of Protesters Detained by Iraqi Security ForcesA number of protesters participating in the demonstration in Tahrir Square in Baghdad this morning, Friday 27th May 2011, have been detained by security men.

Amazing Egyptian Revolution

(05 Feb 2010) Following some good comments on the revolution but some strange references to its universalism (that is not shared by the west even though it is its humanist philosophy) by the apparent 'Elvis of cultural theory' (Zizek), and earlier preparations by Merkel of Germany, the UK PM David Cameron responds to the peoples uprising in Egypt with a diatribe against multiculturalism in the name of universalism.