POLITICS

In the West it has become almost a truism by Rosalie Rivett that Muslim women, especially those in the Arab world, are oppressed, voiceless and – to put it bluntly – miserable. As with most…

There is nothing new under the sun. This includes the phenomenon of women taking part in combat. It is only in our short-sighted, modern view that we see this as something strange, something innovative,…

Before I begin, I have to declare an interest. For the past fourteen years, a big part of my professional life has been devoted to the strategising, designing and multipartnership implementation…

Arica, Chile, situated in one of By Mike Hawthorne the most desolate climates in the world, has always been a city on the edge – far from the centres of power, clinging on in a hostile environment,…

With an explosion of graffiti, Egypt’s young artists, sometimes more exuberant than skilled, claim a ground for free speech and memorialising the country’s fight for freedom. It is a ground…

Photos by Alfredo Rossi A Mild-Mannered Italian Traveller in North Korea As this edition of Dante goes to press the peak of the North Korean crisis seems to have passed. At least we hope it has,…

The extraordinary nature of the events in the Vatican in the weeks leading up to Easter celebrations cannot be understated. For the first time in over seven hundred years a pope voluntarily resigned…

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has asserted that there is a threat from the “strange union” of Islam and the political Left in the West, particularly in Europe. Nir Boms and Shayan Arya…

As globalisation hurtles forward at an ever- quickening pace, there have, at times, seemed to be recurrent resurgences of nationalism, especially in Europe, as a reflexive response. But is this…

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it – or so it’s said. But what of those who don’t simply forget the past, but actively squelch it, erase it, stamp it out, revise it? Perhaps…

Humans are crowding into the rafters of the planet. Are we on a march to an extinction of our own making? Or can we get a grip in this generation and find a rational and sane solution? The power…

Egypt is the “Gift of the Nile,” said Herodotus, some 3,000 years ago. That is still true today, but as the struggle for resources heats up along with the global temperature, the countries…