Articles tagged with: Europe
The translucent white marble stairs and cream gilt and stucco ceilings of the ceremonial hall of Ankara’s new presidential palace rarely echo to spontaneous applause, but the words “Turkey will always be part of my heart” did the trick. The declaration came from a source to which the Turkish audience is no longer accustomed: a speech by a pro-Turkish European politician.
They were the words of Dutch Senator René van der Linden’s gracious acceptance of Turkey’s highest honor, th...
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Monday, 14 Jan, 2013
“So now, you do not know my name?” declared the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in response to a question posed by one of the judges at his trial. A wry smile broke across Saddam’s face before he said, “If you do not know me, why did you bring me here?”
In a subsequent session, a veiled witness took the stand. Masking the witness’s identity protected the individual from retaliation, yet it also undermined justice since the witness’s identity could not be publicly confir...
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Wednesday, 9 Jan, 2013
A few months ago a message arrived from a good friend in Beirut. Houssein described how, three months earlier, he had lost his job as an architectural engineer. He had been app...
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Tucked away in Maddox Street, a strangely quiet side road wedged behind London’s busy Regent Street, is the Selma Feriani Gallery; currently home to the first London solo exhibit...
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In an extensive renovation, the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art were expanded, reconceptualized and renamed and are now organized in an entirely new way, refle...
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Monday, 23 Jan, 2012
The Arab league convened on Sunday in Cairo in order to deliberate over the future of the organization’s mission to Syria. Despite the fact that the 22-member organization’...
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Sunday, 25 Sep, 2011
Decline has never been a comfortable conversation for any great power, not alone a super power, but for the "city on the hill", it's a particularly uncomfortable topic. A sense...
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