More than a decade ago, when Ahmadinejad became the president of Iran for the second time and the people protested the announcement of the results, Jafar Panahi was arrested. On July 30, 2009, he -...
This year's unprecedented attacks against Iraqi Kurdistan have had detrimental effects on the autonomous region's energy and tourism sectors. On July 20, Iraqi tourists converging on Zakho's Parakh...
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-installed warlord of Chechnya, is playing the role of a “hawk” in the Russian political establishment. His pro-war rhetoric has inspired increasing debate in Moscow...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to Pop Culture Planet Sum up your podcast in three...
Since the publication of her 2017 debut, Conversations with Friends and her work Normal People, Irish writer Sally Rooney has become an inescapable benchmark of “millennial literature”. Her...
We all know that the American education system is deeply flawed and we can often see that many people are not learning enough within the current system. There are ideas about how to fix it coming out...
The Lord of the Rings is back and, in the first episode of the Rings of Power, it’s hard to tear your eyes from the massive pile of elven helmets left on the battlefield, as crows caw in the...
Russia's humiliating defeat in Ukraine seems to be inevitable. While the Ukrainian military continues rapidly advancing and conducting its very successful counteroffensive, the Kremlin cannot – or...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
