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Media in Bulgaria: Outlawing Freedom
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
Democracy à la Bulgarian Oligarchy. This sounds like a scary disease in a pathetic soap opera. I agree: oligarchy is a type of plague. It is contagious, insidious and pandemic. Without pathos: the beautiful country I come from suffers from chronic oligarchy. It is no new illness: Aristotle defined plutocracy […]
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Rayna Stamboliyska
PhD, research fellow at Paris Descartes University // CEO at RS Strategy // Geek & DIYbio hacker // working to achieve gender equality in science & tech // former research assistent for Unesco // human rights activist // Editor for Global Voices Bulgarian & Bioinfo-fr.net // Author for Al-Jazeera English, Nature Middle East & Jadaliyya // Science blogger for Nature's SciLogs.com and Australian Science // board member of the French chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation // human being
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Women in Science: Why So Few?
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
When a few years ago I first got interested in this topic, I obsessively read all I could about it. The oldest paper I found at that time was from 1965 and bore the title: “Women in Science: Why So Few?” Yes, it’s the same as the title of the current posting […]
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Bulgaria to Teach Tunisia How to “Do Democracy”
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
When Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid in December 2010, nobody expected what was going to happen afterwards. Several observers and experts attempted to draw a parallel between events in Tunisia and the dramatic changes that took place in eastern European countries after […]
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Unconcerned by 9/11? Think again!
Written by Rayna Stamboliyska
My skin is milk-white. I am from Eastern Europe. I am a successful student in Paris, France. I have nothing from a North-African girl with her lively French punctuated by Arabic words and her curly hair, often shyly sleeping under a veil. I am everything but concerned by what happened on September 11.
