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Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 16:03 - 1 Comment

Review – Le Grand Voyage

Against his wishes, Reda (Nicolas Cazale), a young French man, is forced to drive his Moroccan father from the south of France to make the 'hajj', the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.

Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:56 - 0 Comments

Review – The Treatment

Review – The Treatment Written by Martin Crimp. Directed by Sam Grafton. Hicham Yezza First, a disclaimer: I’m NOT a Martin Crimp fan, too many of his lines have that Becket-light scent as far as am concerned, but after watching this, I at least, at last, understand why it won (among other things) the John […]

Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:52 - 0 Comments

Review – Road to Guantanamo

Review – Road to Guantanamo (dir. Michael Winterbottom) by Alistair Nixon In Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Henry Perowne speaks of September 11th 2001 as his eighteen year old son’s induction into international affairs; “his initiation, in front of the TV, before the dissolving towers was intense, but he adapted quickly.” It is a statement that is […]

Features - Thursday, May 29, 2008 14:55 - 2 Comments

The future of the world – as seen from an airport

by Hicham Yezza Airports are salty wounds, full of tight air and crimson stale tears and often, when sitting rigidly on an Africa-to- Europe flight, I can feel the passengers are wounds inside wounds: bundles of dry nerves in a bath of dry uncertainty.

Columns - Saturday, April 26, 2008 18:07 - 3 Comments

Starbucks: a narrative

A new American corporate presence on campus greeted students eager to start the new academic year. No, this wasn’t McDonald’s (which would never be accepted) or Coke (which has long been accepted) but something between the two – Starbucks.

Features - Saturday, April 26, 2008 0:04 - 5 Comments

Serious Resistance

The ever-increasing infringements on civil liberties in Britain, the widespread acceptance of imprisonment without trial, and the rise of the ubiquitous CCTV camera, have seen calls for increased checks on the state’s power. But what if the state itself is the problem?

Ideas - Saturday, April 26, 2008 0:02 - 13 Comments

Q&A: Anarchism

Anarchism is an oft-misunderstood political ideology - it’s not mainstream, it doesn’t seem to have a set of defined principles and to many, the word means ‘chaos’.

Features - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 17:36 - 7 Comments

Cuba – What Next?

After half a century as president of Cuba, Fidel Castro finally stepped down. What happens next? Rowan Lubbock analyses the history of Cuba and makes some sobering predictions.

Arts & Culture - Friday, February 3, 2006 1:38 - 0 Comments

Review – Takk, by Sigur Ros

Iceland has a proud tradition when it comes to producing quite remarkable musical talent, and Sigur Ros's latest offering is no exception.

Features - Friday, February 3, 2006 1:28 - 0 Comments

Chad’s Genocide: Missed by the Media

Masses of information from the media constantly bombard us yet, paradoxically, often the most important goes uncovered. Take for instance, Africa. A country like Sudan suddenly comes under the spotlight. Reports of rape, massacre and corruption in the Darfur region reinforce all the stereotypes about the “dark continent” of savage aliens. And then, just as quickly, Sudan will fall from view.