About this site

Print edition
Four week free trial

About the paper
View digital paper
Renew your sub

More content

On this site

Politics >  experiences of politics, diplomacy and trade
Article photo

Obama in action

As Barack Obama's campaign team prepares to fly to London to raise funds for his bid to be the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 US presidential elections, Luke Riley describes a recent rally he attended

Article photoArctic gold rush

Sergei Pryamikov, an oceanographer from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St Petersburg, says Russia's recent Arctic expedition was more than a PR stunt

Article photoPartition and Pakistan

Fatima Sughra lived in Lahore in 1947. She describes the build-up to the riots and violence that spread across the country at the time of partition

Life in Gaza

Moataz Abdo is one of five brothers who run a popular restaurant, Palmyra, in Gaza City. He describes life in Gaza under the complete control of the Islamist Hamas movement

Lawyers' revolt

Pakistan's chief justice Ifthikhar Chaudhry was suspended earlier this year, then reinstated in July. Islamabad-based lawyer Abdur Rehman Siddiqui protested against the suspension

Actor turns politician

Rumaldo Bucio is an actor famous for his roles in ultra-violent Mexican B-movies about drug traffickers. He is now hoping to run for mayor in a town plagued by violent drug gangs

More from this category
The latest from My Guardian Weekly