Paris

Thursday 1st September

Libyan rebels encircle Sirte as Gaddafi son presses for resistance

Humayun Saleem, 1 September 2011
Libyan rebel forces encircle Sirte, as Saif al-Islam Gaddafi presses for resistance. South Korea appoints Yu Woo lk as its new unification minister. The Sri Lankan government introduces new anti-terrorism rules after emergency laws expire. And Iran plans to continue enriching 20 percent uranium. All this in today’s briefing…
Wednesday 4th May

Who killed the poet?

Luis de Miranda, 4 May 2011
Bardo and Ophelia at the triumphal arch: will the censored verses of Hamlet reveal to us who killed the poet? An extract from the new novel by Luis de Miranda
Monday 11th October

20, 2000 and 2: the three shadows of Facebook

Luis de Miranda, 11 October 2010
The eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless replacement to reality. You could not have designed Facebook better to opiate 21st Century occidentals
Wednesday 6th October

Religious secularity

Jerome di Costanzo and Rémi Brague, 6 October 2010
Is there a difference between secularity and secularism? Are they both essentially Christian, or essentially religious concepts? An interview with the arabist and medievalist, Rémi Brague
Tuesday 9th February

France approves sale of high-tech warship to Russia

Dries Belet, 9 February 2010
International concern about sale of French amphibious warship to Russia. US aims for new sanctions on Iran “within weeks”. 197 people indicted for murder over Philippine massacre. Sir Lankan opposition leader treated “like an animal”. All this and much more in today’s security briefing.
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