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Iran: torch of fire, politics of fun openDemocracy - Latest articles from openDemocracy Iran: torch of fire, politics of fun Argentina y las Malvinas: in search of reality Kashgar’s old city: landscape of loss Netanyahu meets Obama in midst of Jerusalem settlement row Style over kitsch: the four lives of David Sarkisyan Crash report: Has the left learned the lessons of the financial crisis? Iran: torch of fire, politics of fun Chahārshanbe-Sūri (Wednesday feast) is an ancient Persian festival whose origins lie in the Achaemenid era of Persia’s civilisation (549-330 bce) and its successors, when Zoroastrian beliefs were strong. By tradition it is celebrated on the last... Read more » Argentina y las Malvinas: in search of reality A series of events has brought the usually dormant if always sensitive issue of the south Atlantic’s Falklands/Malvinas islands (British territory, claimed by Argentina) back into the political spotlight. The decision to send an oil platform to... Read more » Kashgar’s old city: landscape of loss The dust that now rises in Kashgar’s old city comes no longer from the sands of the Taklamakan desert, but from the debris of centuries-old houses demolished in a “residents’-resettlement” project. This historic urban heartland of Uyghur... Read more » Netanyahu meets Obama in midst of Jerusalem settlement row US President Barack Obama met with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overnight in unusually low-profile White House talks; their first since a row over plans to build homes in occupied East Jerusalem. The pair held two private... Read more » Style over kitsch: the four lives of David Sarkisyan David Sarkisyan’s office: great sanctuary for Moscow’s heritage campaigners and weary travellers David Sarkisyan, a leading cultural figure in Russia who worked in the frontline of the campaign for Moscow’s beleaguered heritage,... Read more » Crash report: Has the left learned the lessons of the financial crisis? When financial markets collapsed in 2008, it was widely seen as the end of an era dominated by neoliberalism. Is the left making the most of the opportunity to fill the vacuum? That's the question at the heart of After the Crash - re-inventing... Read more »