Identity Hunters
By Sukhmani Dev Hrant Dink, a Turkish Armenian intellectual, was assassinated on 19 January 2007 in Istanbul. Soon, a song by the nationalist folk singer Ismail Türüt, released later in the year, sparked controversy when a YouTube video linked the lyrics to Dink’s assassination in a celebratory manner. In 2017, Zabit Kişi, a critic of […]
By Aron Tisoczki The theatrical partnership of dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan gave rise to a series of comic operas that have enjoyed broad success ever since their inception between 1871 and 1896. The success of these “Savoy Operas” in the English-speaking world has endured well into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. […]
By Aron Tisoczki The British Museum’s ‘Enlightenment Gallery’ aims to introduce visitors to an experience reminiscent of an eighteenth-century museum, replicating an environment that visually and tangibly evokes the Georgian era. However, the museum’s eighteenth-century worldview establishes Britain as intellectually superior. The gallery not only seems to celebrate British expansionism as triumph of knowledge and […]
By Sophiya Duale Bound by tradition, exploited under French rule and facing American bombardment, Vietnamese women rapidly transformed from obedient daughters into fierce revolutionaries. Their journey reflects a fight to free their homeland from foreign dominance and themselves from patriarchy’s ancient grip. A Woman’s Place in Traditional VietnamRooted in Confucian tradition, Vietnamese women lived under […]
By Madeleine Pearson-Gee, Theodore Browning The island nation of Malta has a greater concentration of churches than any other non-Vatican country in Europe. Church-going participants in Malta’s booming tourism economy, however, are often taken aback when the Maltese mass first mentions God – the priest’s words are l-imħabba ta ‘Alla. ‘Alla’ is a word of […]
The history of hawker culture in three images taken in 1907, 1965, and c.1980 respectively: Source: Roots.Gov.SG By Jing Kai Lee and Ashley Tan The story that often comes to mind in discussions of Singapore today is its economic miracle—an outpost founded by the East India Company in 1819, moving from Third World to First […]
And Why She Gets Away With it. By Liv Sinnes No same-sex marriage, no adoption for same-sex couples, and removal of queer representation in media and education perverting the youth – reads the anti-queer agenda of the AFD, Germany’s popular far-right and aggressively anti-immigration party. The leader and face of the party? Alice Weidel, a […]
The Line, a futuristic smart city planned in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk Province (9). By Hamza Yousif In Riyadh, Formula E races zip past centuries-old fortresses, while in Jeddah, art installations celebrate a national “renaissance.” On social media, Saudi youth post tributes to a kingdom in transformation, proud of reforms that were unthinkable just a decade […]
By Idunn Engstad In 2019, UEFA found Rangers FC guilty of ‘racist behaviour’, specifically sectarian chants, during a 6-0 home win against Gibraltar’s St Joseph’s in the Europa League qualifiers. Ordered to close a section of 3000 seats for their next game, chairman Dave King stated Rangers has ‘players and supporters from many religions, cultures […]
