Culture

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ended his exile and flew to Iran in 1979, covering women with headscarves and pushing minorities...

Slavenka Drakulić’s integrity was unshakeable. When she described a conflict, a society or a human predicament, she was not simply...

For this is why not only lice, bedbugs, fleas and helminths, come into being as the guests and neighbours of...

The destruction of Gaza has remained strangely invisible, despite unfolding before a global audience, write Hamit Bozarslan, Anne-Lorraine Bujon and...

His first poetry collection at nineteen, his second at twenty-two, then a collection of award-winning prose, at twenty-five – the...

President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At...

In June 2024, Kenya’s President William Ruto announced that he was going to withdraw a finance bill that, via tax...

Viktor Orbán’s defeat has deprived the European far right of its most successful model of government. Patriots for Europe remain...

One’s mother tongue is the greatest comfort blanket, an intimacy like no other, in which we feel most at ease...

Narratives of Apocalypse are a defining feature of the present. In parallel, narrative itself is in decline, or even obsolete,...