When we think of New York, we are immediately enveloped in a discourse of skyscrapers, bright lights and cosmopolitans. It’s the city that never sleeps, electricity pumping through its veins. But is there something that lies beneath all the expense, gluttony, and excess? Georgina Campbell When most people […]
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Whitechapel, the heart of the East
During the final years of the 19th Century it was the scene of the crimes of Jack the Ripper. It has since become a peaceful and picturesque area inhabited, mostly, by the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities of London. Benjamin Serra Anyone who takes the District or Hammersmith & […]
English writer Tom Feiling: “We are ignorant of Colombia”
A new book by an English writer and film-maker describes how his early experience of the country led to a desire to overcome its distorted image in the UK press. He wants to show readers the social and historical context of violence, and the political changes required for lasting peace. […]
Burkas to bikinis
Roaming around the National Mosque in a burka in Kuala Lumpur I began to feel a similar sensation to what I had just felt on the beach in Langkawi Island in the Andaman Sea a few days earlier. Faryal Iqbal It was a liberating feeling that I felt […]
From Art Cinema to Iranian execution list: Emir Hasanpor
– A glance behind the Curtain – “Religion overcasts on Iran’s sky like an octopus and people are controlled like stitch dolls, if anybody speaks something athwart is condemned to execution and easily done so”, says this Iranian independent film maker. Shanta Sultana The melancholy director, a […]