Taha Muhammad Ali felt the lifelong pain of displacement after Israeli forces took control of his beloved village in 1948. A pared-back one-man show of his life leaves the audience thinking of Gaza.
Perhaps the reason we’re no longer able to see into the future like the great writers of the twentieth century, is that we’re in our own version of what they predicted.
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Bagehot: The Life andTimesof the Greatest Victorian.James Grant. Norton, 2019. 368pp.
InJames Grant, it sometimes seems, the nineteenth century has been resuscitated. Towering, gaunt, bow…
The city walls are scarred with bullet holes and burn marks. Tattered camouflage netting hangs like moss over defunct fighter posts and the Moorish archways of the marketplace. The cries of hungry…
InVenezuela, a humanitarian crisis is coming to a boil. The country’s GDP has shrunk by double digits over the past few years, annual inflation runs to more than 80,000 percent, and 90 percent of the…
The Northern Irish Troubles, relative to their scale, are the most studied conflict in modern history. They took place in a province the size ofConnecticutwith a population of around 1.6 million…
Early Life
Jürgen Klopp was born on June 16, 1967, in Stuttgart, West Germany. His father, Norbert, was a traveling salesman and showed the potential of becoming a…
The Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution inMyanmarfor decades. And yet no violence in their recent history has compared to that which theMyanmarmilitary inflicted inAugust 2017. After militants…
Saudi Arabia has been changing -rapidly - and art and culture are playing a pivotal role in this significant social shift. Last year Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched the creation of the…
As world leaders struggle to contend with two major conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, the dramatic escalation in Kashmir raises the prospect of a new war erupting between two nuclear-armed powers
Just weeks after Donald Trump's televised table-thumping over one of the world's most famous canals, the world's biggest asset manager emerged as a buyer for its strategic ports
Ambitious targets are largely being met, with several areas exceeding expectations, but with foreign direct investment still less-than-hoped, there is still work to be done.
Taha Muhammad Ali felt the lifelong pain of displacement after Israeli forces took control of his beloved village in 1948. A pared-back one-man show of his life leaves the audience thinking of Gaza.