Ninety-five per cent of deaths from disasters are amongst the poorest of the world’s population. Only 2% of disasters are in the developed world. All disasters are essentially man-made. The poor are always hit by far the worst. Nigel Pocock It might seem surprising to my readers […]
In Focus
In Focus
Bogota, a convulsed and despairing city
The metropolis is a frenzied animal. But what can it do to defend itself? Jump. Cry. Ask us to show it some mercy? Ask us to refrain from filling it with temples, where even God refuses to pray. Armando Orozco Tovar The Earth is an animal. She shakes […]
A photographic memory of Palestine before the Nakba
The Nakba, the dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians by Israelis in 1948, in the words of Mohammed El-Kurd “breathes down our necks, invading our national identity and contorting our earliest encounters with our sense of self”. Sean Sheehan He writes this in the foreword to the 2024 edition […]
It is not death that preoccupies us, but life
Having frank discussions about death and accepting its inevitability can help us put our own lives into perspective.. We often turn a blind eye to death in the West. But why? After all, prevailing common sense tells us that every life ultimately ends in the same way: with death. […]
Those times of confrontation
At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country. He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists. It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today. Armando […]