In 2013, Nu‘man al-Hudheyfi – a man of akhdam origin – participated at the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) held in Sanaa as part of the crisis reconciliation efforts following the 2011 Yemeni Arab ...
The dominant process underlying the transformation of life in all societies, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, is the conversion of things and activities into commodities, or commodification.
Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and ...
"Political technology" – a term largely unfamiliar in the West - is the euphemism commonly used in the former Soviet states for what is by now a highly developed industry of political manipulation.
The current moment – marked by rising homophobia and the rollback of progressive rights across Africa and beyond – sits ...
Sukhanovskaya Prison, also known as Sukhanovka or Special Facility No.110 existed between 1938 and 1952. In 1938, on the orders of the NKVD [forerunner of the KGB and FSB] a secret detention centre ...
Once a month Ilya Stepanov turns into a girl. He registers on a popular Russian social networking site and creates a page apparently belonging to a teenager of 14 or so. ‘Tanya’ or ‘Viktoria’ starts ...
Godwin's law, the adage that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one", reflects the fact that one of the surest ways to ...
Does literature make us kinder, more human? Great works of literature are often love-letters to literature itself, self-conscious replies to the act and the multiplicity of story-telling, and the ...
Ahed Tamimi on the wall of separation in Bethlehem. Picture by: Richard Gray/EMPICS Entertainment/PA images. All rights reserved. Ahed Tamimi, the new blond icon of ...
Lenin (centre) with Roddy Connolly (centre-right) at the Second World Congress of the Communist International, Petrograd, July 1920. It is early July, 1920. Roddy Connolly, teenage participant in the ...
On the issue of removing her head scarf after wearing it for over five years, a close friend of mine was hesitant - and it was not on religious basis. It was rather over the issue of facing the ...
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