The bare story of Homer’s “Odyssey” – a man returns home from the battlefield of Troy after various adventures, defeats his enemies and is reunited with his loyal wife – cannot explain the enduring appeal of Homer’s tale to readers who don’t believe in heroes and happy endings. Sean […]
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A lively character that won’t die
Elpidio Valdés is his name, and he has been around for five decades. He is a timeless and original creation and is destined to leave an impression on popular culture. Liz Arianna Bobadilla Leon The mambi, independent guerrilla, manigüero*, rebel, first entered the spotlight on August 14th 1970 […]
Women’s rights or Islamophobia?
Women’s rights issues have become a conflict of loyalties for Muslims when they can be used as an excuse for repression by a government in these polarized times. Blanket generalisations about patriarchy are not helpful when many cultural and economic issues are entwined.
Immigrants in Covid times: “No one helped me”
What seemed to be the typical immigrant dream coming true, turned into a nightmare with the pandemic. Jessica contracted the Coronavirus in the United Kingdom, did not receive help from the NHS, suffered everything in solitude and almost died in her room. The virus stayed in her body for almost […]
Covid in Brazil: unemployment in addition to death
The Latin American country registered 12.8 million unemployed in the second quarter of the year, a rise of 13.3% and the highest level since May 2017. The above figures have been reported by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). According to IBGE, unemployment increased in this period […]
















