Current RSS news religion and democracy

religion and democracy

FEATURE religion and democracy : Subculture: sexes, hairdos and jeans in Iran

Subculture: sexes, hairdos and jeans in Iran

1 April is Islamic Republic Day, a national holiday in Iran. Thirty years after the Islamic revolution, an unpopular government is once again struggling with a dissatisfied young population. However, the Iranian resistance against its own regime has no strategy behind it, only tactics. A portrait of the mood in the land of the red squares

by Jan Aengenvoort @ // 01/04/09

religion and democracy, religion, revolution, youth, underground, world affairs, islam

23 results

Participate!

cafebabel.co.uk works only thanks to your contributions. Read about these proposed issues, react, argue, propose your own angles or information bites

More calls

Advertising

Religion and democracy in the babelblogs

IRAN – revolution postponed

Revolution in Iran seems to happen only in western dreams and media. Protests took place only in Tehran and a few large cities and are now nearly disappeared. Smaller towns and rural areas have been very quiet whole the time after elections. The opposition may not yet have been defeated ...

AriRusila by AriRusila on arirusila

Iran – Twitter – Revolution

People are on the streets in Tehran, the death toll is rising, and rumors are spreading that not only students but also some figures inside Establishment would begin to openly challenge Ali Khamenei's legitimacy as supreme leader. Some reports claim that Hashemi Rafsanjani - head of the Assembly of Experts ...

AriRusila by AriRusila on arirusila

Portugal | Ejaculatory Prayers Heavenwards

The weather forecast for Portugal on Sunday, the 7th of June: Clouds are covering the sky, with a temperature of 12 to 16 degrees. The chance of rain: 74 percent. So, if you want a shiny weekend, all the Portuguese should pray in sunday's worship. May be, they also ...

epolitik by epolitik on epolitik

Turkey and the EU: “In varietate concordia”

The opposition to Turkey’s EU membership is often based on the country’s vast population, their wrongly publicized religion, their unconsolidated economy, their uncertain politics, their critical geographical location and their stereotyped culture. I argue that those, with few exceptions, must be seen as dynamic, thus prone to inevitable ...

Fabio Pereira by Fabio Pereira on bdev

CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: THE CASE OF THE "UNIVERSITIES FOR PEACE OF LOURDES".

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union announced the end of a bipolar world in which two ideologies opposed each other: Soviet communism versus capitalism. As in nature, voids in geopolitics are soon filled; as a result, new divisions appeared and others reappeared. They ...

Olivier Védrine by Olivier Védrine on collegeatlantiqueoural