![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Part 1: political culture - Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Hilton Part 1 (of 2 part interview): political culture For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3258 Keywords: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Hilton, The Eagles Throne, Mexico Downloads: 9,866 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Idols & Insults: writing, religion, and freedom of expression - openDemocracy, Ayaan Hirsi Ali openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks about writing, religion, and freedom of expression. Keywords: PEN, opendemocracy, World Voices, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nilufer Gole, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan, Ian Buruma, idols and insults, freedom of expression, religion, open democracy Downloads: 6,337 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ankelohe conversations - openDemocracy, Jeremy Leggett, George Marshall, Mark Lynas From the "Ankelohe Conversations" in Germany Jeremy Leggett, George Marshall, and Mark Lynas discuss climate change and the oil endgame. Keywords: opendemocracy, Ankelohe Conversations, Solana Larsen, Jeremy Leggett, George Marshall, Mark Lynas, climate change Downloads: 4,571 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Freedom to write: Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie - openDemocracy, Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie openDemocracy presents the first of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood discuss power, shame and saying the unsayable. Part 1, in which Salman Rushdie talks about Gunther Grass, "Group 47" and dialogue between America and the rest of the world. For partial transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen_3488.jsp Part two of a three part interview. Keywords: openDemocracy, Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, PEN, democracy, open democracy Downloads: 4,098 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Idols & Insults: writing, religion, and freedom of expression - openDemocracy, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nilufer Gole, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan, Ian Buruma openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. In a question and answer session eight speakers discuss writing, religion, and freedom of expression: What does respect mean, how can work still be meaningful without self-censoring? Keywords: PEN, opendemocracy, World Voices, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nilufer Gole, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan, Ian Buruma, idols and insults, freedom of expression, religion, open democracy Downloads: 2,752 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | openDemocracy poDcast 120107 - openDemocracy Wish you could hear as well as see openDemocracy? Well now you can! Listen to the first of our weekly poDcasts. Keywords: opendemocracy, podcast, pilot, democracy, Isabel Hilton, Sidney Blumental, Alain de Botton, mp3, open democracy, Paul Rogers, Harun Hassan, Stephen Howe Downloads: 2,612 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Guantanamo: the inside story - openDemocracy, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton Hear Clive Stafford Smith explain. "Those three people were meant to stand up in court and say 'I'm guilty' just like in the days of Joe Stalin ... It's meant to divert your attention from the fact that Osama Bin Laden has never been caught". For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/xml/xhtml/articles/3055.html Part 6 of a 10 part interview. Keywords: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib, torture Downloads: 2,511 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Rethinking human rights: Luis Alfonso de Alba interviewed - openDemocracy, Isabel hilton, Isabel Hilton, editor of openDemocracy, speaks to Luis Alfonso de Alba, president of the Human Rights Council. Keywords: isabel hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, luis alfonso de alba, human rights council, un human rights commission, human rights Downloads: 2,447 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | opendemocracy_podcast 080207 - openDemocracy Wish you could hear as well as see openDemocracy? Well now you can! Listen to our weekly poDcast. Keywords: opendemocracy, podcast, pilot, democracy, Iraq, President, politics, Ali Allawi, Siobhan O'Connell, Isabel Hilton, gender, renga, mp3, open democracy Downloads: 2,339 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | opendemocracy_podcast 180107 - openDemocracy Wish you could hear as well as see openDemocracy? Well now you can! Listen to the second of our weekly poDcasts. Keywords: opendemocracy, podcast, pilot, democracy, Isabel Hilton, Sidney Blumental, Alain de Botton, mp3, open democracy, Jim Gabour, New Orleans, Maggie Gee, Babel, leg drain Downloads: 2,306 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | opendemocracy_podcast 250107 - openDemocracy Wish you could hear as well as see openDemocracy? Well now you can! Listen to our weekly poDcast. Keywords: opendemocracy, podcast, pilot, democracy, Isabel Hilton, Sidney Blumental, Alain de Botton, mp3, open democracy, Patricia Daniel, China dialogue, fat Downloads: 1,639 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | From Vietnam to Iraq: Daniel Ellsberg interviewed - Daniel Ellsberg, Isabel Hilton In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers the Pentagon's secret, twelve-volume history of United States involvement in Vietnam. Why did he do it? For partial transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=3&debateId=33&articleId=3101 Part 2 of a 4 part interview. Keywords: Daniel Ellsberg, Vietnam, Pentagon Papers, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, Iraq, whistle-blower, truth, politics Downloads: 1,526 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Freedom to write: Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie - openDemocracy, Margaret Atwood, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie openDemocracy presents the first of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood discuss power, shame and saying the unsayable. Part 2, in which Orhan Pamuk talks about freedom of expression, and the legacy of the Iraq war. For partial transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen_3488.jsp Keywords: openDemocracy, Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, PEN, democracy, open democracy Downloads: 1,463 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Argumentative Indians: Amartya Sen and Salman Rushdie in conversation - openDemocracy, Amartya Sen, Salman Rushdie openDemocracy presents the second of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Two giants of south Asian culture, the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie discuss democracy, migration and identity. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen2_3520.jsp Both parts of a 2 part audio. Keywords: Amartya Sen, Salman Rushdie, PEN Downloads: 1,230 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Guantanamo: the inside story - openDemocracy, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton Clive Stafford-Smith is a lawyer who represents many of the more than 500 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. In an exclusive interview for openDemocracy, he describes the prison camp and the conditions that lawyers work under, tells us how his clients have been tortured and explains how false information extracted by torture is contaminating US intelligence. Listen to Guantanamo, the inside story. For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debat... Keywords: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib, torture Downloads: 1,017 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Freedom to write: Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie - openDemocracy, Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie openDemocracy presents the first of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood discuss power, shame and saying the unsayable. For partial transcripts and observations, visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen_3488.jsp Keywords: openDemocracy; Orhan Pamuk; Margaret Atwood; Salman Rushdie; PEN; World Voices; freedom of speech Downloads: 992 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ankelohe conversations - openDemocracy, Solana Larsen, George Marshall From the "Ankelohe Conversations" in Germany Solana Larsen talks to George Marshall of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, about climate change and the oil endgame. Keywords: opendemocracy, Ankelohe Conversations, Solana Larsen, Jeremy Leggett, George Marshall, Mark Lynas, climate change Downloads: 969 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | opendemocracy_podcast 010207 - openDemocracy Wish you could hear as well as see openDemocracy? Well now you can! Listen to our weekly poDcast. Keywords: opendemocracy, podcast, pilot, democracy, Kamin Mohammadi, Tehran, Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Isabel Hilton, gender, renga, mp3, open democracy Downloads: 858 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | From Vietnam to Iraq: Daniel Ellsberg interviewed - openDemocracy Daniel Ellsberg pioneered modern 'whistleblowing' when, as a former insider, he revealed the Pentagon's classified, 7,000-page history of the Vietnam war in 1971. Why did he do it, and what lessons can he give to those troubled by the Iraq war today? Listen to Daniel Ellsberg's four-part interview with openDemocracy's Isabel Hilton. Keywords: vietnam whistle-blowing ellsberg opendemocracy Downloads: 694 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Right At Your Door: Chris Gorak - Rory Cochrane interview - Mark Hanrahan Mark Hanrahan talks to director Chris Gorak about his new film and fictionalising a terrorist attack Keywords: film; terrorism; arts; culture; democracy; opendemocracy; politics; attack; terrorism Downloads: 587 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | openDemocracy poDcast pilot - openDemocracy Wish you could hear as well as see openDemocracy? Listen to Isabel Hilton talking to Sidney Blumenthal, Alain de Botton interviewed and our picks-of-the-week in the first ever oD podcast. Keywords: opendemocracy, podcast, pilot, democracy, Isabel Hilton, Sidney Blumental, Alain de Botton, mp3, open democracy Downloads: 579 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Mardi Gras, 2007 - openDemocracy, Jim Gabour "The carnival that keeps us sane after all this madness." Jim Gabour reports from New Orleans' big parade. Keywords: New Orleans, Jim Gabour, openDemocracy, politics, democracy, FEMA, mardi gras, carnival, Hurricane Katrina, levee Downloads: 575 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | John Lennon: Revolution in the head - openDemocracy, Richard Young, David Leaf openDemocracy's Richard Young talks to David Leaf, writer and director of "John Lennon vs the US," a film about the Nixon administration's attempts to silence Lennon's anti-war message. Keywords: opendemocracy, democracy, politics, John Lennon, President Nixon, David Leaf, Richard Young, Yoko Ono, The Beatles, John Sheinfeld Downloads: 543 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Tortured language: the poetry of human rights - openDemocracy, Yang Lian, Peter Forbes Listen to Yang Lian read Shi Tao's poem "Pain, and an English translation performed by Peter Forbes For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 2 of a 2 poem series Keywords: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights, poetry, Poet in the City, exile, Helena Kennedy Downloads: 464 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Imagining power: Carlos Fuentes interviewed - Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Hilton Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's foremost novelists, talks to Isabel Hilton about his latest book "The Eagle's Throne" which explores the nature of power and presidency in a future Mexico. For transcripts and observations, visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3258 Interview in two parts. Keywords: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Hilton, The Eagles Throne, Mexico Downloads: 441 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Argumentative Indians: Amartya Sen and Salman Rushdie in conversation - openDemocracy, Amartya Sen, Salman Rushdie openDemocracy presents the second of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Two giants of south Asian culture, the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie discuss democracy, migration and identity. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen2_3520.jsp Part 2 of a 2 part audio. Keywords: Amartya Sen, Salman Rushdie, PEN Downloads: 441 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The right to life: an interview with Sister Helen Prejean - Sister Helen Prejean, Isabel Hilton Over 1000 people have been executed in the US since the death penalty was reintroduced in 1976. Sister Helen Prejean, a leading campaigner against capital punishment and author of "Dead Man Walking", talks to Isabel Hilton about the flaws in the American judicial system and whether the death penalty will ever be abolished. Plus, an exclusive extract from her new book "The Death of Innocents". For partial transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?i... Keywords: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Sister Helen Prejean, death penalty, dead man walking, tim robbins, Isabel Hilton, death of innocents, abu ghraib, torture, supreme court Downloads: 425 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Tortured language: the poetry of human rights - openDemocracy, Choman Hardi Listen to Choman Hardi read "Summer roof". For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 4 of a 4 poem selection. Keywords: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights, poetry, Poet in the City, exile, Helena Kennedy Downloads: 423 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Guantanamo: the inside story - Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton Hear Clive Stafford-Smith talk about what it's like to conduct client attorney interviews in Guantanamo. "It all depends on whether you believe in Santa Claus". For partial transcript and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 3 of a 10 part interview. Keywords: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib, torture Downloads: 403 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Afghan revival - openDemocracy, Charlie Devereux, Reza Amidst ongoing violence and fragile politics, how has independent reportage fared in post-Taliban Afghanistan? Charlie Devereux talks to world-renowned photojournalist Reza about his Kabul-based NGO Aïna and ambitions to construct a free Afghan media. Keywords: opendemocracy, Taliban, Aina, Charlie devereux, reza, photography, Afghanistan, Taliban, NGO, politics, democracy, open democracy Downloads: 369 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ankelohe conversations - openDemocracy, Solana Larsen, Mark Lynas From the "Ankelohe Conversations" in Germany Solana Larsen talks to the Author of "High Tide: News from a warming world", Mark Lynas, about climate change and the oil endgame. Keywords: opendemocracy, Ankelohe Conversations, Solana Larsen, Jeremy Leggett, George Marshall, Mark Lynas, climate change Downloads: 366 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Guantanamo: the inside story - Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton Hear Clive Stafford-Smith explain why he is working for the Guantanamo prisoners. "It's always been a rule of my life that if someone is being hated, you have to get between the hated and the hater". For partial transcript and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 5 of a 10 part interview. Keywords: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib, torture Downloads: 358 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Isabel Hilton talks to Sidney Blumenthal - openDemocracy, Isabel hilton, Sidney Blumenthal After the mid-term elections, what next for US politics? Sidney Blumenthal, openDemocracy columnist and author of "How Bush Rules", speaks in this exclusive interview with openDemocracy editor Isabel Hilton about the Democratic victory, the Republican trauma, and the Bush predicament now. Keywords: Sidney Blumenthal, Isabel Hilton, opendemocracy, open democracy, politics, democracy, midterms, Bush, Republicans, Democrats, How Bush Rules, Senate, House of Representatives, climate change, Clinton Downloads: 355 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Idols & Insults: writing, religion, and freedom of expression - openDemocracy, Tariq Ramadan openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Tariq Ramadan speaks about writing, religion, and freedom of expression. Keywords: PEN, opendemocracy, World Voices, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nilufer Gole, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan, Ian Buruma, idols and insults, open democracy Downloads: 349 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Tibet vs China: the complicated showdown - openDemocracy, Comite de Apoyo del Tibet, Tenzin Tsundue Earlier this year an historic lawsuit opened, charging the Chinese authorities with genocide and other crimes in Tibet. openDemocracy talks to Tenzin Tsundue, one of the Tibetan witnesses testifying in the case, and the Spanish-based NGO that launched the proceedings. Keywords: Emily Hunter, Comite de Apoyo del Tibet, Tibet, opendemocracy, democracy, politics, open democracy, genocide, China, NGO, Tenzin Tsundue Downloads: 329 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Argumentative Indians: Amartya Sen and Salman Rushdie in conversation - Amartya Sen, Salman Rushdie openDemocracy presents the second of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Two giants of south Asian culture, the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie discuss democracy, migration and identity. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen2_3520.jsp Part 1 of a 2 part audio. Keywords: Amartya Sen, Salman Rushdie, PEN Downloads: 323 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Right At Your Door interview - Mark Hanrahan Mark Hanrahan talks to director Chris Gorak about his new film and fictionalising a terrorist attack Keywords: film; terrorism; arts; culture; democracy; opendemocracy; politics; attack; terrorism Downloads: 319 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Idols & Insults: writing, religion, and freedom of expression - openDemocracy, Juan Luis Cebrian openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Juan Luis Cebrian speaks about writing, religion, and freedom of expression. Keywords: PEN, opendemocracy, World Voices, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nilufer Gole, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan, Ian Buruma, idols and insults, freedom of expression, religion, open democracy Downloads: 287 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Morocco at the border: an interview with Yto Barrada / Morocco unbound: an interview with Yto Barrada - openDemocracy, Charlotte Collins, Yto Barrada Over the last 15 years, the Strait of Gibraltar has become one of the main gateways for illegal immigration in north Africa. Yto Barrada's photographs, taken between 1998 - 2004, capture the temptations of leaving, and the unfulfilled hopes of escaping into Europe. Charlotte Collins talks to her. For partial transcripts and observations please visit Part 1: the background Part 1 of a 2 part interview. Keywords: Yto Barrada, Morocco, Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, Strait Project Downloads: 274 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Ankelohe conversations - openDemocracy, Solana Larsen, Jeremy Leggett, From the "Ankelohe Conversations" in Germany Solana Larsen talks to the former chief scientist of Greenpeace, Jeremy Leggett, about climate change and the oil endgame. Keywords: opendemocracy, Ankelohe Conversations, Solana Larsen, Jeremy Leggett, George Marshall, Mark Lynas, climate change Downloads: 271 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | John Lennon: Revolution in the head - openDemocracy, Richard Young, David Leaf openDemocracy's Richard Young talks to David Leaf, writer and director of "John Lennon vs the US," a film about the Nixon administration's attempts to silence Lennon's anti-war message. Keywords: opendemocracy, democracy, politics, John Lennon, President Nixon, David Leaf, Richard Young, Yoko Ono, The Beatles, John Sheinfeld Downloads: 249 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Key to Memory: an interview with Elias Khoury, Part 1 - openDemocracy, Elias Khoury, BrÃan Hanrahan In hundreds of interwoven stories, "Gate of the Sun" addresses the memory of the nakba, the flight and expulsion of large numbers of Palestinians during the war of 1948. Here, Elias Khoury talks about why it has taken so long for an epic novel of this experience to be written, how he combined imaginative literature with documented events, and his fascination for the province of Galilee. Part 1 of a three part interview... Keywords: opendemocracy; elias khoury; palestine; arab; literature; nakba Downloads: 247 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Morocco at the border: an interview with Yto Barrada / Morocco unbound: an interview with Yto Barrada - openDemocracy, Charlotte Collins, Yto Barrada Part 2: the photographs Part 2 of a 2 part interview. For partial transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-photography/barrada_3551.jsp Keywords: Yto Barrada, Morocco, Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, Strait Project Downloads: 233 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Branko Milanovic interview - openDemocracy The World Bank economist Branko Milanovic talks to openDemocracy about globalisation, inequality and labour mobility. Keywords: opendemocracy, politics, democracy, Branko Milanovic, World Bank, economics, inequality, Gini coefficient, Cochabamba, Boloivia, Rachel Rawlins Downloads: 224 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Key to Memory: an interview with Elias Khoury - opendemocracy, Elias Khoury, Brian Hanrahan "Literature is the way to deal with the human soul, to deal with our perception of life." Gate of the Sun, Elias Khoury's highly acclaimed epic novel is among the very first and few to address the modern history of Palestine. What inspired him to write it, and what are his hopes for peace in the Arab world? Listen to Elias Khoury's three-part interview with Brian Hanrahan. To read transcripts and observation, visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/khoury_3462.jsp. Keywords: opendemocracy elias khoury palestine arab literature Downloads: 218 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | America's secret prisons: Alvaro Gil-Robles interviewed - openDemocracy, Alvaro Gil-Robles, Isabel Hilton The CIA is accused of operating "black sites" - secret prisons in Europe, using European airports for clandestine flights connected to the transfer of unacknowledged prisoners. Alvaro Gil-Robles, human-rights commissioner for the Council of Europe, tells openDemocracy's Isabel Hilton that this must stop - and that democrats cannot fight terrorism by abandoning their principles and values. For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-terrorism/torture_3059.j... Keywords: torture, detention, CIA secret flights, European Convention on Human Rights, democracy, terrorism, Alvaro Gil-Robles, openDemocracy, Council of Europe, Isabel Hilton Downloads: 217 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Key to Memory: an interview with Elias Khoury - openDemocracy, Elias Khoury, BrÃan Hanrahan Khoury discusses the endlessly-debated question of literature's relation to politics. The ambiguities and complexities of literature are not the stuff of practical political life, yet the imaginative power of literature offers one of the few possible ways out of a deadlock of mutual non-comprehension. For partial transcripts and observations, plus an extract from Elias Khoury's book "Gate of the Sun", please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/khoury_3462.jsp Part two of a three p... Keywords: openDemocracy; Elias Khoury; Palestine; arab literature; gate of the sun Downloads: 202 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Guantanamo: the inside story - opendemocracy, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton Hear Clive Stafford Smith, whose clients have been tortured, explain. For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 9 of a 10 part interview Keywords: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib, torture Downloads: 190 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Offside - Jafar Panahi A clip from Iranian director Jafar Panahi's black football comedy, Offside. A group of women, who are banned from watching live football, have tried to sneak into a stadium to see Iran's final qualifying match for the World Cup. Unfortunately they are caught and held in custody - what happens when one of them wants to go to the ladies? See the original article, plus interview with Panahi at this link: http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Film/offside_3620.jsp. Downloads: 188 Average rating: (0 review) |  |
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