Reading Alex's recent post on Kenya, I was reminded of a snippet I put on my own mini- and not-very-productive blog exactly two years ago today (excuse the...
Mark Weston
Mark Weston is a writer, researcher and consultant working on public health, justice, youth employability and other global issues. He lives in Sudan, and is the author of two books on Africa – The Ringtone and the Drum and African Beauty.
Turkey’s “deep state”
Mysterious goings on in Turkey, as a shadowy group of arch-nationalists with alarmingly close links to the army and government is arrested for conspiring to...
Walls come tumbling down
The humble low-tech wall continues to muscle its way stubbornly onto 21st century newsreels, with Palestinians tearing down the barrier that separates Gaza...
More on walls
A Dutch company has taken steps to address my complaint about the ugliness of Israel's West Bank wall. You pay the firm 30 Euros and it pays a Palestinian to...
A world full of walls
Iran has taken a leaf out of its sworn enemies' book by building a wall to keep out the PJAK, the PKK's Iranian wing whose emergence I mentioned on here a...
Democracy for the few
Just as I was wondering whether Turkey's Kurds still had reasons to be grumpy, up pops the country's Supreme Court to ban the leading Kurdish political party,...
Desperate times call for desperate measures
You know you're in trouble when you need combat camels to save you. The latest masterstroke in the world's response to the genocide in Darfur is to import...
Israeli paper names Muslim as world’s best leader shock
OK it's Haaretz, a left-wing rag, but hey. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdo?an, they argue, is the pick of today's rum bunch of global leaders. Without him,...
Who’s the fundamentalist now?
The humble headscarf has become a key symbol in the simmering debate over Turkey's secular future. In August this year it nearly brought down the government...
Operation Wash Lunatics
Social capital, Sierra Leone style: Youths along Sani Abacha Street on Saturday 10th of November, embarked on what they termed ‘Operation wash lunatics’, a...
Being Tayyip
If you ever have to choose a country for your worst enemy to run, you should strongly consider Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, the current Turkish Prime...
Love thy neighbour
Most commentators on the Congressional resolution commemorating the Armenian genocide have adopted a US-centric view. Andrew Sullivan describes the move as...
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