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Feminists from Turkey are especially alert to what is happening in Afghanistan. For us, the rise of fundamentalism is an existential threat that is never far away.
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President Erdogan’s decision to reconvert the building into a mosque is a further move against religious pluralism.
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The French-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani’s first work of non-fiction is composed of a series of interviews with Moroccan women…
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After a recent panel on “politics and literature”, a young man in the audience stood up and said, “Can…
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Coming from Turkey, I know that the ballot box is not enough to sustain a democracy.
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How Brexit has brought liberal democracy to the edge.
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It is a sign of the times that I find myself defending liberal values in London, the city that welcomed…
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In the 2018 New Statesman / Goldsmiths Prize lecture, Elif Shafak explains why – in a world ruled by fear…
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Heavy metal in Wales, the horror in London and a return to Storyland.
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