The forgotten clash within civilisations
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the clash of civilisations theory, but Samuel P Huntington was wrong.
Read MoreThis year marks the 20th anniversary of the clash of civilisations theory, but Samuel P Huntington was wrong.
Read MoreThere is no conflict between Islam and the West – only clashes of interests between and within them. But there is a very real mash of civilisations.
Read MoreFundamentalists in America and Egypt are obsessed with “virtue “and “vice”. But the rise of Islamists threatens to bind Egyptian women in a moral vice.
Read MoreOn the 10th anniversary of the day after 9/11, it is high time to trash the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory and the ‘war on terror’ and start a new chapter in the West’s relationship with the new Middle East.
Read MoreMalta’s complex heritage is living proof that cultures mash more than civilisations clash.
Read MoreObama may gain some trust, but America’s deceptive belief that it is not an empire condemns its leader to repeating old mistakes.
Read MoreThe “clash of civilisations” has been massively overblown. It’s blinded us to the fault lines which lie within cultural groups.
Read MoreIt is time to dispel the myths that conservative Muslims often propagate about ‘the West’.
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