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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAre litmus tests on culture spreading from Israel to Berlin?Pro-Israel journalists and politicians in Germany target a Palestinian arts and culture festival, its curators and...
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Published in: 50.50Philosophies of migrationMigration raises more fundamental questions than 'should these people be here': it probes into the very essence of...
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Published in: Transformation14 reasons for celebrating 200 years of Pride and Prejudice (1813)Here are fourteen reasons for the celebration of this work of genius, beginning with seven celebrating what Pride...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWe promise you an operettaThe development of Egypt's military-brand nationalism over the past year can be traced in a series of formulaic,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCultural heritage and violence in the Middle EastWhen people are dying in their thousands, why should we care about the destruction of artefacts? Cultural violence...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGleaming in the dust
An audio documentary uncovering the illicit trade in antiquities in post-revolution Egypt.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFilm review: 'Omar' and the nature of colonialismA review of Omar (2014), the most recent offering from the Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, which portrays the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A very German myth: feral boys and the conflict between civilization and cultureIn the internal exile in which Romanticism has languished in post-war Germany, encounters with feral boys (even...
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Published in: HomeSaving NSCAD: Why art education could save us, but first we must save it
Art schools are vital eco-systems that both reflect and contribute to the health of the society in which they are...
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Published in: oDROrenburg shawls: a classic of Russian folk artGossamer or spider web shawls have been knitted in Orenburg for generations. The tradition nearly disappeared, but...
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Published in: oDRMarina Goldovskaya: documenting modern RussiaLondon’s Pushkin House is hosting a retrospective of Russian director Marina Goldovskaya’s documentaries under the...
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Published in: 50.50Migrations:reconstructing 'Britishness' in art
The Tate Britain exhibition, ‘Migrations: Journeys into British Art’ highlights migrants’ central role in the...
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Published in: oDRThe Magnitsky affair: let theatre judgeA British theatre company has brought a play about final hours of Sergei Magnitsky’s life to the London stage. Irina...
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Published in: oDRPeople's gala at the BolshoiThe lengthy and vastly expensive restoration of Moscow’s famous Bolshoi Theatre comes to fruition on 28 October,...
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Published in: oDRCoats and turncoats: translating Pushkin’s The Captain’s DaughterTranslating Alexander Pushkin’s novel The Captain’s Daughter launched Robert Chandler on a journey of revelations...
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Published in: oDRLiberating PushkinRussia’s greatest poet Alexander Pushkin is notoriously hard for non-Russian speakers to appreciate. So Susan...
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Published in: oDRPoetry in pictures: a film about Joseph BrodskyAndrei Khrzhanovskii’s recent Russian film about the poet Joseph Brodsky evokes elements of his childhood, internal...
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Published in: oDRVoznesensky: elegy for a fashionable poetThe poet Andrei Voznesensky died on 1 June. One of the former “big 4” Soviet poets, he managed to hang on to his...
