Posts Tagged ‘ international ’

Gareth Davies on Waste Land

March 11, 2011

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish. We’re all familiar with T.S. Eliot’s magnum opus The Wasteland. But does its message of a planet in decline still resonate with the world we live in now? Yes, says Lucy Walker, and more than ever before. Her new crea­tion, Waste [...]


Leena Sobahi on The Uprise of Arab Spirit

March 11, 2011

For decades, many Arab popu­lations have been the victims of harsh political regimes, ones that have restricted change and basic universal rights like freedom of speech and democ­racy. They are lum­bered with the same immovable leaders and taught to say only what is expected of them, otherwise, as is commonly un­derstood, ‘You won’t live to [...]