Culture

In the early days of March 2022, as Russian troops were approaching the outskirts of Kyiv, international media were focused...

Nostalgia appears to be a defining trait of our times. It emanates from virtually everywhere: popular culture, fashion, art, even...

Being half-Jewish and half-Palestinian has one undoubted benefit: it teaches a young girl that peace is not a pipe dream...

Migration is one of today’s most powerful, and most entrenched, imaginaries. The word conjures up images of walls, borders, police,...

Conventional market-led solutions to water scarcity in the Arab Mediterranean, above all mega projects such as dams, have tended to...

Photo by Membeth via Wikimedia Commons As the end of abundance becomes an everyday experience in Europe, we are thinking...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RrFcfww6vI Sexually transmitted infections have been a defining feature of the entire history of human civilization. We have seen skeletons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuGvhpXjyAw Despite popular belief, the majority of Europeans do not have access to learning foreign languages, and being bi- or...

In economic terms, state socialism is usually associated with the monopoly of an authoritarian state over core elements of the...

At one point in his 1984 essay ‘Permission to narrate’, Edward Said described urging family and friends in Beirut to...