A decade after the start of the popular revolts that swept the whole Arab region, a book by Harvard scholar Noah Feldman returns on the question of its widespread failure, challenging our views on why that happened. Our review.
Analyses
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Rebecca Batley 20 October 2020Church and State have always been intertwined in Russia: under Tsarism God was inextricably linked to the Tsar. However recently all this has begun to change. Last year many Orthodox supporters took part in the pro democracy protests in Moscow: religious opposition to Putin is growing, there can be no doubt of that, but what this means for a government that is so intimately intertwined with the Russian Orthodox church is unclear. - Federica Zoja 15 October 2020Over two months after the explosion that devastated the port of Beirut, the country is at a crossroads: a drastic change in the institutional paradigm seems to be the only alternative to implosion.
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- Camilla Pagani 24 September 2020Well before the Black Lives Matter protests shook up the West throguhout 2020, the Geneva Museum of Etnography had embarked on a fully-fledged rethinking of its own mission, and collections. Here’s how.
- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 23 September 2020“Ethnography has had its day: it is high time Europeans hand over looted objects”, says the director of the Dakar Museum of Black Civilizations. But other African artists and cultural players have more than a doubt.
- Camilla Pagani 22 September 2020At a time when colonial history and its legacy is becoming an object of controversial debate worldwide, ethnography museums can rethink their mission, and play a key educational role
- Umberto De Giovannangeli 15 September 2020An interview with PM Mohammed Shtayyeh on the day of the signing of the “Abraham Accords” between Israel and the two Gulf countries
- Debora Spini 7 September 2020Narendra Modi’s recent anti-Muslim moves are only the latest, explicit signs of an alarming trend. Yet India’s democracy is endowed with meaningful antibodies
- Giovanna Pavesi 3 September 2020From Khodorkovsky to Navalny, the invisible hand behind an endless series of political aggressions
- Matteo Fraschini Koffi 2 September 2020After the mid-August coup, the military must set a new course for the country. A number of players, within and outside, are trying to influence it.
