Still from The Cow, 1969, dir. Dariush Mehrjui Image courtesy of Iranian.com
The Cow follows the story of a farmer who owns the only cow in his village. The
Self-portrait, Lida Abdul, http://www.lidaabdul.com/index.html
"Sometimes people say, I am "post-identity", "post-nation" ... I dont know what this means. For me
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Hiroshima was the first city in history to be subjected to nuclear warfare, when the atomic weapon codenamed Little boy was dropped on the city on 6 August 1945. After
Abd al-Rahman, Age 13 I am looking at the sheep in the wadi [riverbed, or oasis]. I see Janjaweed comingquickly, on horses and camels, with Kalashnikovsshooting and yelling,
Grandfather and grandmother in their tenement apartment Jacques Aslanian, 1995
Born in Paris, where his parents fled to escape the genocide, many of Jacques Aslanians paintings reflect his preoccupation
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For the first time in history the majority of the worlds people live in cities. But urban leaders have
Three sets of papal outfits, Osservatore Romano/Reuters
Three sets of papal outfits of different sizes are pictured at the Vatican 18 April 2005. The outfits wait in a room
Iran lives the contradictions of 21st-century world politics. In Tehran, a sclerotic, Islamic, post-revolutionary, nuclear state commands a youthful, idea-hungry, proto-democratic, networked society. Iranians everywhere in Los Angeles, Berlin, and
Ravana visits the moon, illustration from the Ramayana, Udaipur, 1653
Ravana, the ten-headed demon king, ascends higher and higher, travelling past the source of the Ganges, where elephants frolic in
Colombe au rameau dolivier, visage, main et feuille de chêne, 1950 Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 8 April 1973)
Five years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and
