Profiles

New in Ceasefire, Profiles - Monday, March 21, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments

Profile Fred Halliday: Political Journeys

Fred Haliday, who passed away last year, was one of the world's foremost political analysts and scholars. As a collection of his essays is published, its editor David Hayes, pays tribute to Halliday's remarkable political journeys and his intellectual legacy.

Ceasefire Bites, Features, Profiles, Special Reports - Wednesday, March 9, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments

Activism Tom Hurndall: Honouring a legacy

In April 2003, Tom Hurndall, a young British photojournalist and peace worker, was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip as he carried two young Palestinian children out of the line of sniper fire. As a public appeal continues to get his journals published, writer and activist Libby Powell, a personal friend, pays tribute to his legacy.

Modern Times, New in Ceasefire, Profiles - Tuesday, November 2, 2010 0:00 - 0 Comments

Modern Times: Playing to Win

In this week's Modern Times column, Corin Faife recounts his eye-opening meeting with Michael Albert, one of the world's greatest thinkers and activists, and how it got him wondering about the future, and our need to win the battle to shape it.

Ideas, New in Ceasefire, Profiles - Thursday, October 28, 2010 0:00 - 10 Comments

Profile: Slavoj Žižek – The Dog’s Bollocks … at the Media Dinner Party

In an exclusive essay, Paul Taylor explains why Slavoj Žižek stands out so forcefully from the conventional commentariat and debunks two frequently voiced objections to his work – the obscene humour and his refusal to provide ready-made solutions for the problems he so readily identifies.

Arts & Culture, Features, Music & Dance, Profiles - Sunday, August 15, 2010 0:13 - 0 Comments

Culture Fix: Robert Chrisgau, doyen of US music critics, retires

After more than 40 years at the top of the music journalism game, Robert Christgau, formerly of the Village Voice and legendary author of the 'Consumer guide' series has this month announced his retirement from writing his weekly column. To mark this end of an era, academic and writer Donal Mac an Eala writes a moving tribute to a unique, encylopedically rich voice in music and cultural criticism.

Features, Politics, Profiles - Monday, August 9, 2010 17:46 - 3 Comments

Remembering Mahmoud Darwish – How the revolution was written

Two years ago today Palestine’s National Poet, Mahmoud Darwish passed away after a 6-month battle with cancer. He was 67. The ensuing reverberations, of loss and mourning and a sense of things left unsaid continue to resonate to this day. On this second anniversary, Ahmed Masoud, Palestinian academic, writer and theatre director, revisits the astonishing achievements of a literary giant. In particular, he guides us through a crucial period in Darwish’s intellectual journey, namely the years 1950-1971 when he was still living in Israel. It's a fitting homage, celebrating the life of a true humanist and the fighting conscience of a nation.

Columns, Modern Times, Politics, Profiles - Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:57 - 6 Comments

Modern Times: Osman Rasul – In Memory

On Sunday, Osman Rasul, a 27-year old Iraqi Kurd who had spent nine years in the inhumane limbo of the asylum bureaucracy leaped to his death from the seventh floor of a Nottingham tower block. Ceasefire Columnist Corin Faife, a friend of Osman's, pays tribute to a "warm, kind, respectful man", crushed by the injustice and cruelty of the Home Office's asylum policy.

Ceasefire Bites, Features, Politics, Profiles - Monday, December 7, 2009 12:14 - 0 Comments

Chomsky: London lectures and an 81st birthday

Today, Noam Chomsky is 81. A few weeks ago, at his London lecture series - widely anticipated to be his last in the UK - he addressed crowds numbering in their thousands. Musab Younis covered his talks for Ceasefire.

Features, Interviews, Profiles - Tuesday, September 1, 2009 10:09 - 0 Comments

Interview Noam Chomsky (2008)

Noam Chomsky discusses Israel and Palestine, anarcho-syndicalism, China and India, the anti-war movement, and public intellectuals with Ceasefire editor Hicham Yezza. Chomsky, notes Yezza, has the unique "ability to bring out the mind of his listener out of its atrophied comfort."

Features, Profiles - Thursday, May 21, 2009 23:29 - 10 Comments

Why proportional representation helps the BNP

"All it will take for the BNP to win seats at the European Parliament," writes Andrew Gibson, "is for them to mobilise (already happening) and for UKIP to do less well (likely). In a sense, the d'Hondt voting system is too democratic. By compromising with minority parties, it gives the oxygen of publicity to fascists."