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When people used to ask me, “Do you ski?” I always thought it was the same as asking, “Do you fly the trapeze?” or “Do you perform skull surgery?” Of course I didn’t. I never knew much about skiing ...

Nick Fish is a civil rights activist and president of American Atheists, an NGO which fights for the civil liberties of atheists and for the total separation of government and religion. He spoke to us ...

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Sultan Barakat is the founding director of the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York. He has edited a collection of essays entitled Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq ...