Distinguished politicians and scholars advocate the need for a 'democratic playbook' robust enough to withstand threats to free and fair elections in Africa.
Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure--a disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it affected, isolating them from society. Today there is an effective treatment, but the last mile to achieve a leprosy-free world is the hardest. Now approaching eighty years old, one Japanese philanthropic activist has played a key role in global efforts against leprosy, both as head of a private f...
Up to one billion children live in countries or territories affected by armed conflict, with millions of children killed or disabled as a consequence of war and many more in situations of extreme physical and emotional risk. Fifty-million children have been forced to flee their homes by humanitarian disaster and conflict, and experience horrifying levels of trafficking, exploitation and abuse. These children are in already desperate and terrif...
How do we identify and judge beauty? Does it distract us from more pressing questions? Is beauty the handmaiden of privilege? Or can it be found in everyday, ordinary things? Do Muslims have an inkling of what beauty is and why it is significant? This issue of Critical Muslim looks at beauty from a number of perspectives --from beauty in the Qur'an and the Beautiful Divine Names to racism and the beauty industry, politics of fashion, calligrap...
A political biography of one of the great survivors ofAfrican politics, a major figure in the anti-apartheid struggle and close ally of Nelson Mandela.
How has the poster child of "cradle to grave" welfare fared in recent decades, and what have the strains on Swedish society revealed about its true nature?
