Features & opinion: Diversity & multiculturalism

17.08.2004 www.harrietkessie.com is a good example of how the internet can be used imaginatively to benefit and promote a minority business. The innovative website fronts the Harriet Kessie Hair Dressing Salon, set up by partners Harriet Kessie and Joseph Cudjoe three years ago. The salon was one of the finalists for Britain's Best New Company in the HSBC Start Up Stars Awards 2003.

09.08.2004 "Let’s bring the flag of St George home and reclaim it as one of the symbols that we use to express an alternative identity that is diverse, outward-looking and inclusive." Billy Bragg celebrates the contribution of the flag of St George and the England football team in furthering the cause of multiculturalism.

28.07.2004 “I want to go beyond the perception that I am only different from you, or that difference is the beginning and the end.” Swiss–Egyptian philosopher, teacher and writer Tariq Ramadan talks to Rosemary Bechler about his life’s project: bringing Muslims and Europe home to each other.

21.05.2004 Belgium’s historic, multicultural port city of Antwerp is the site of a bitter political contest involving the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Blok and the militant Arab European League supported by young people of Moroccan descent – with the city’s ancient Jewish community targeted by both. As European elections approach, Nick Ryan reports on openDemocracy.