Gold miners in the Brazilian Amazon are destroying the Yanomami community’s home. But, says Davi Kopenawa, his people are ready to fight for their land. Rowenna Davis met him.
October 2009's Issue
Thirty years after the Iranian Revolution, political Islam is at a crossroads. But is the Islamic Republic really Islamic? Writer and broadcaster Ziauddin Sardar explains why he thinks it most definitely is not.
Who is funding Islamic extremism? Nafeez Ahmed gives the lowdown on support for ‘our terrorists’ – and it goes beyond the usual suspects.
Next month’s issue also offers dispatches from minority voices in the Muslim world. A gay Iraqi activist traces the changes – from discos to fatwas – in post-‘liberation’ Baghdad. A feisty Saudi Arabian feminist speaks her mind – and stays put in her own country. A Jewish Iranian embraces both her faith and her homeland.
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Featured in issue 426
Our kids, their kids
Children of safai karmacharis (people engaged in sanitation work) in Gujarat are being forced by teachers to clean toilets and mop floors in school. Mari Marcel Thekaekara listens to their stories.
- Mari Marcel Thekaekara
- 28 Oct 2009
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One in one million
Campaigner for women’s rights in her native Iran, Leila Alikarami talks about the One Million Signatures campaign, how the equality laws can and should be changed, and the impact of the election result on her fellow countrywomen.
- 22 Oct 2009
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From Calais to Dover: the widening gulf
Sophie Roumat reports on last month’s destruction of the ‘Jungle’ - the Calais camp which housed Afghan asylum seekers.
- Sophie Roumat
- 21 Oct 2009
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Running out of patience
Exactly 34 years after a ruling by the ICJ recognized the Saharawi’s right to self-determination, British MPs gathered to call for the release of seven human rights defenders in Morocco. Stefan Simanowitz was there.
- Stefan Simanowitz
- 19 Oct 2009
- 0
In every kiss a revolution
Uruguay, self-proclaimed ‘Latin capital of respect and tolerance’ marches for diversity. Solen Lees reports.
- Jenny Solen Lees
- 7 Oct 2009
- 0
'I don't have a problem - the problem is theirs'
In Bolivia, public and community art is being used to convey the priorities and aspirations of disabled people.
- Rebecca Yeo
- 5 Oct 2009
- 0
Natural Selection
Szperling’s short, punchy novel paints a vivid pen-portrait of the savage and amoral nature of this stratum of Argentinean society.
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Islam in power
Hadani Ditmars calls for a return to Islam’s spirit of democracy and pluralism.
- Hadani Ditmars
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Fish Tank
A film that gets inside the mind and feelings of a young person deeply at odds with the world. Written and directed by Andrea Arnold.
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
The road to recovery
A decade after independence, Timor-Leste’s people are still struggling to get justice
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Named and shamed
Countries across the globe that are flouting international law and violating refugees’ rights.
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Birdwatchers
The reality of indigenous life in the Amazon. Directed and co-written by Marco Bechis
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Emmanuel Jal
Emmanuel Jal, celebrity rapper and ex-child soldier, talks to Rowenna Davis about why he is championing African education.
- Rowenna Davis
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Greening the law
The streets have traditionally been the home of environmental activism. But could campaigners be just as at home in the courtroom? Olly Zanetti considers the evidence.
- Olly Zanetti
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Our terrorists
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed on the spooky complicity between Western intelligence agencies and Islamist extremism.
- Nafeez Ahmed
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Permission denied
Maria Golia recalls why part of her Egyptian education involved learning how to break the rules.
- Maria Golia
- 1 Oct 2009
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Al-'ilm Nur (Knowledge is Light)
Syed Tajammul Hussain’s artful approach to Qur’anic verses.
- Syed Hussain
- 1 Oct 2009
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Toxic planet
Our profligate use of deadly chemicals is coming back to haunt us, writes Zoe Cormier.
- Zoe Cormier
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
A century of voluntary hunger
Anthony Dias ponders the purpose of the hunger strike.
- Anthony Dias
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Motlhalefi Mahlabe
Motlhalefi Mahlabe photographs slums in a South African township.
- Motlhalefi Mahlabe
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Our terrorists
Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments, right? Think again. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reports in this extended version of the article which appeared in the October 2009 issue.
- Nafeez Ahmed
- 1 Oct 2009
- 2
Thursday Night Widows
Nominally a thriller, Thursday Night Widows is less concerned with the ‘whodunnit’ aspects of plotting than with a psychological dissection of a social class obsessed with bickering and petty jealousies as the pillars of their world dissolve.
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Travesty
Where did the controversial idea of the ‘Islamic state’ come from? Ziauddin Sardar traces its origins.
- Ziauddin Sardar
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
Rishte
An album with a range of references stretching from a lazy Delta blues to the yearnings of Urdu devotionals. By Najma Akhtar and Gary Lucas.
- Louise Gray
- 1 Oct 2009
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Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast
Guitars blast, synthesizers go mad and a group of gospel harmonizers strain for the heavens as sitar strings twang. By Cornershop
- Louise Gray
- 1 Oct 2009
- 0
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