Rosemary Bechler
Rosemary Bechler is editor of openDemocracy. She has edited a number of books, including The Convention on Modern Liberty: The British Debate on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, published in paperback by Imprint Academic in 2010.
Articles by Rosemary Bechler
Continental rift
We first reported on Dyab Abou Jahjah, the controversial leader of Belgium's Arab European League, in July 2004. Since then French riots and the cartoon crisis have raised his profile. At a meeting in Rotterdam he debated with equally controversial Muslim advocate Tariq Ramadan. Rosemary Bechler was there
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Europe’s Malcolm X
Dyab Abou Jahjah is thirtytwo years old. He was born in Lebanon, which he left at the age of nineteen for asylum in Belgium, even though he now happily admits that in reality he was an economic migrant. After holding a trade union position looking after the interests of migrant workers, he founded the AEL in February 2000. Rosemary Bechler met him in the old community centre in Borgerhout, the Moroccan district of Antwerp
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