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Democracy

Power to the people?

26 May 2010

Greece was the birthplace of democracy, but our own political system would be unrecognisable to voters in Ancient Athens. As Classicist Paul...

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Free TV Texture

Watching religiously

20 May 2010

A new survey of the boom in religious broadcasting in the Middle East reveals how the small screen is becoming an increasingly important battlefield...

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Games!

Praise for research initiative on British Muslims

09 Apr 2010

A Cambridge University-led project which investigated what it means to be a Muslim living in modern Britain has won high praise as a model for future...

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Mosque in Frost

Contextualising Islam In Britain report released

06 Oct 2009

A report which explores the philosophical and theological perspectives on what it means to be a Muslim in Britain today has been published.

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look of innocence

Muslim women face two-fronted struggle for equality

28 Jan 2009

European Muslim women are proud to live in and belong to Europe, despite facing a daily struggle against prejudice from both within and outside their...

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Cambridge Backs

Campus radicalism fears too extreme?

03 Dec 2008

British Universities are not hotbeds of Islamic radicalism, despite fears about the rise of "campus extremism", a new study has found.

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Muslim leaders' "historic” statement of friendship welcomed

11 Oct 2007

A statement of peace and friendship, signed by more than 130 Muslim scholars and addressed to Christian leaders around the world has been hailed as...

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