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Multiculturalism and the ‘war on terror’

In this issue

By examining the effects of the ‘war on terror’, we find that its causes are by no means directly related to the ‘terror’ against which it is said to be waged. The debate about multiculturalism is equally complex. Some blame terrorism on multiculturalism, as if too much of the latter has led to the former; others commend multiculturalism as a first line of defence. Can the same phenomenon be both malady and treatment?

Featuring

Documentarist Peter Taylor on intelligent counter-terrorism; writer and broadcaster Kenan Malik on multiculturalism’s role in the development of political estrangement; Ashwani Sharma on white fright; Phil Cohen and Eamonn Carrabine on white flight; and so much more…

Introducing

Reportage on East London life by UEL students

Debating

• The place of faith in a multicultural society, with contributions from home secretary Charles Clarke, Professor Tariq Ramadan and others.
• The New East End
• Who Will Build The Thames Gateway?

Highlighting

The work of artist Anthony Lam whose latest exhibition, Ports of Call, forms an important part of the Mayfest at the Docklands campus jointly organised by the London East Research Institute.

Rising East combines analysis and scholarly work with reportage, comment, reviews, interviews and illustration. Views expressed in Rising East are not those of the University of East London, nor of the London East Research Institute. Since Rising East is a platform for debate, to endorse every view expressed here would be impossible.

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Editor at large: Phil Cohen
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