Multiculturalism
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Erdogan’s Iron Fist Comes Down On Democracy And Religious Liberty
No tourist misses Hagia Sophia when visiting Istanbul. Doug Bandow The American Conservative Originally an Orthodox church—the largest in the…
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Thessaloniki’s Jews: ‘We can’t let this be forgotten; if it’s forgotten, it will die’
Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the…
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Why imposter syndrome hits women and women of colour harder
Self-doubt and imposter syndrome permeate the workplace, but women, especially women of colour, are particularly likely to experience it. Why…
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Tayyip Erdogan joins thousands at Hagia Sophia for Friday prayer
Some were seen holding Turkish and Ottoman flags. Sana Sikander The Siasat Daily ISTANBUL – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan joined…
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Erdogan Is Erasing Ataturk’s Stamp On Turkey
Under normal circumstances, the most important news out of Turkey last weekend would have been a new law that, critics…
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UNESCO statement on Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Paris, Friday 10 July – The Director-General of UNESCO deeply regrets the decision of the Turkish authorities, made without prior discussion,…
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Australia’s media has been too white for too long.
The case for a more diverse and representative media should be clear by now – it’s been made time and…
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Turkey Deporting Protestant Christians
“We would like to inform you,” said a statement by the Association of Protestant Churches, “of a deportation practice targeting…
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Shifty Paradigms
When the American physicist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn identified the notion of the Paradigm Shift in the early…
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James Baldwin Was Right All Along
America just needs to heed them. “There are days—this is one of them—when you wonder what your role is in…
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How to stop being a bystander and stand up to racism and sexism
Who could have stopped that from happening? Who allowed it to happen? Jenna Price The Sydney Morning Herald The murder…
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Britain’s role in slavery was not to end it, but to thwart abolition at every turn
Boris Johnson has proclaimed that to remove offensive statues – whether of Bristolian slave traders or his own heroes – would be…
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We can’t forget about humanity’s most vulnerable
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing and exacerbating one of our greatest weaknesses – the treatment of refugees and people seeking…
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This national reckoning is overdue
The death of George Floyd triggered massive political protest due to the long-standing, systematic practice of state violence against an…
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9 tips teachers can use when talking about racism
Education is a powerful took for creating change. So, it’s important teachers don’t shy away from difficult conversations in the…
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Racism in Germany: A Chinese-American reckoning
I hadn’t seen him coming. Beina Xu Deutsche Welle The man was short, stocky, roughly my father’s age. Suddenly he…
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