When Casablanca went into production in the spring of 1942, most of Morocco was a French protectorate, administered ...

Taybeh, on a hilltop near Ramallah, is the site of the Middle East’s oldest microbrewery, which produces ...

The term ‘natural disaster’ is a misnomer. In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis demonstrated that mass starvation in 19 th -century India, China and Brazil could be explained by the erosion of ...

Faridoon Tofan wanted to see Rome. The 46-year-old Afghan national had been living in Germany since 2022 without leaving the country. His asylum claim had been rejected but he had been granted a ...

Not for the first time, theorists of politics are turning to the unconscious and its strange workings – repression and fantasy, libido and death drive, disavowal and displacement – to understand the ...

In May 2025, ten people affiliated with Eksmo, Russia’s publishing behemoth, were detained in Moscow. Three of them, Pavel Ivanov, Dmitry Protopopov and Artyom Vakhlyaev, were charged with ‘organising ...

Trump’s most shocking move to influence the Honduran electorate was to pardon the former president Juan Orlando ...

When Jason Arday’s death was reported on 14 August, I was shocked and saddened but not surprised. The furore around his appointment and tenure as a Cambridge professor had been particularly intense ...

In The Princess Bride, Wallace Shawn’s character, Vizzini, cries ‘Inconceivable!’ every time something doesn’t go according to his plans. His hired swordsman, Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), ...

Faridoon Tofan wanted to see Rome. The 46-year-old Afghan national had been living in Germany since 2022 without ...