WHAT’S IN A NAME? AN ENTIRE SOAP OPERA, APPARENTLY. I have always had a problem with the way popular culture has treated the reputation of the most famous of all the pharaohs. It simply lacks…

Every culture has a myriad of folktales that have been passed down from one generation to the next, mostly through oration. Nevertheless, as writing became a more widely used tool…

Scarlett Moffatt flanked by two Himba women Things here have become very tribal of late. The term has probably never been so fashionable. I just consulted the views of the…

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at theNew Frontierof Power.Shoshana Zuboff. PublicAffairs, 2019. 704pp.In his 1944 classic, The Great…

Masses of people have taken to the streets of Baghdad and several southern provinces, angry over corruption, poor public services and lack of jobs in the largest protests to hit Iraq since…

As unprecedented protests took over the streets of Lebanon- from the North, all the way to the South, through Beirut and the mountains, the Lebanese political class was taken by surprise. Years of…

On the face of it, the gritty comic-book blockbuster “Joker,” the hit female-led crime drama “Hustlers,” the darkly comic Korean-language thriller “Parasite” and the upcoming Agatha Christie…

Holslag claims that China poses a mortal economic threat to Europe and the West. The topic is timely, since the EUis currently considering following…

At 97 years old, John B Goodenough is the oldest laureate to receive a Nobel prize in any discipline. "Live to 97 (years old) and you can do anything," Goodenough said in a…

As I arrived at the press preview for Tate Britain’s new exhibition, I saw the glass cabinets containing the familiar pages of William Blake’s etchings, with their slightly over-neat handwriting and…