The Arab states that eventually emerged have all grappled with their own dysfunctions — challenges of governance, identity and ethnicity that still carry the seeds of far older conflicts.
People I met had developed a kind of progressive politics that could deal with the two key challenges of modernity – identity and belonging on one side, and equality and redistribution on the other – and incorporate them into a vision of a forward-looking, open country.
For the revival of "Godspell," a 1971 musical based on parables from the Gospels, the director Daniel Goldstein and the show's composer and lyricist, Stephen Schwartz, have been tweaking language in some of the parables to underscore the challenges of group identity.
Quilliam was set up to address the unique challenges of citizenship, identity, and belonging in a globalised world and is hopeful that today's speech by the Prime Minister will finally set out a nuanced plan to address the disintegration of British minorities.
The event brings together banks, credit card providers, analysts and security technology companies like Microsoft and VeriSign looking to hash out solutions for the challenges of secure identity and business transactions.
Some of the challenges of racial identity construction faced both within as well as outside of our community would be lessoned through ongoing education and awareness about the multiracial experience here and abroad.
As ever, their performance will be centered on a mission to challenge boundaries of identity and territory, where the New Museum will briefly become the NON State, with the audience and performers forming its citizenry.
A crisis challenges your sense of identity.
But for people of colour, the phenomenon constantly challenges our conception of identity and culture, making us question who we really are.
