Just as Russia's economic growth has obviated talk of democracy, the media's financial successes leave no place for ethical debate. While market imperatives often do the censors' work for them, counter-examples exist, reports Maria Eismont. [ more ]
"Arche" looks warily at the Belarusian thaw; "Magyar Lettre" gets to the heart of the central European city; "Kulturos barai" criticizes the culture of groceries; "Fronesis" takes counsel on the "unhappy marriage" between feminism and the Left; "A Prior" looks at monuments that won't melt into air; "Revista Crítica" sees the political potential of bio-art; "Critique & Humanism" analyzes neophilia and neophobia; "Dialogi" lashes out at the Slovenian press; and "Glänta" is missing links.
teaches at the University of Paris-VII and at the Marc Bloch Centre (Berlin). His most recent publications are L'Orient incandescent, Lausanne, Éditions page deux 2003, and Le Choc des barbaries, Paris (10/18) 2004 (dt. Der Schock der Barbarei, Köln [ISP] 2002).
On civil rights in the Arabian world
On the possibilites, or lack thereof, for improving civil rights in the Middle East as a result of recent events. [more]
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