Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, October 23, 2026
Last year I was in Fes for its annual Festival of World Sacred Music, one of the best of its kind, bringing musicians and bands from across the globe. Sean Sheehan The word sacred in its title is a little misleading as the week-long event includes many artists […]
Between contemplation and environmental critique, Tomás Sánchez uses his residence in Costa Rica to develop art where nature, meditation and ecological awareness intertwine in universal landscapes. Alejandro Gómez In the suburb of San Antonio de Escazú, this Cuban painter’s house looks a lot like one of his pictures. […]
History books used to be boring, “one damn fact after another” as someone said, but not “Mexico: A history”. Sean Sheehan Written with verve, it will surprise anyone not familiar with the story of the country that had the first black and, later, the first indigenous president in […]
The beginning is Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus logico-philosophicus”, in 1922, and the end comes with his final notes, written between 1949 and 27 April, 1951, two days before his death. Sean Sheehan These last notes were brought together in book form and given the title “On Certainty”. New translations of […]
When Israel was created in 1948, Zionists set about ethnic cleansing by expelling Palestinians – the Nakba (‘catastrophe’) – an endeavour on the part of Israel being currently replayed in Gaza and the West Bank. Sean Sheehan “The Lord”, a rare fictional account of life in Palestine before […]
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