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TEL AVIV – COMO EN CASA
La mayoría de las personas que visitan Tel Aviv experimentan una sensación única de familiaridad, como si hubieran llegado a casa. Esto es raro encontrarlo en ciudades históricas grandes que atraen grandes masas armadas de apretadas listas de lugares de interés que uno debe ver.
Guadeloupe: a French island somewhere between paradise and desperation
As soon as you leave the airport, you might be excused for thinking you are in metropolitan France: the cars have French number plates, the European flag above the F. The architecture of the terminal and other buildings are typically Gallic, as if all materials had been directly imported from France.
Joan of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany & Queen of England
As an ambitious woman, Joan of Navarre chose an alliance with England, despite being Valois from her mother’s side. In 1402, she agreed to marry Henry IV, the first king of the Lancaster dynasty, nicknamed “the usurper” by his detractors.
One Night in Miami
The young Cassius Clay finds himself the centre of a tug of war between Malcolm X’s desire for a more politically inclusive Islam and the much narrower, and controlling interpretation of the faith practised by the radical African American organization The Nation of Islam, an organization Malcom X was once a part of but from which he is now exiled.
The Restoration of Napoleon: A sixty year cinematic detective story
You’d be forgiven for thinking that film restoration involves handing over celluloid reels to labs and waiting for them to put them together again, but at a recent talk at the National Film Theatre in London, what Brownlow describes as restoration sounds a lot like cinematic detective work.
Beverly Andrews, a Warrior Artist for Diversity in Unity
BEVERLY ANDREWS, A WARRIOR ARTIST FOR DIVERSITY IN UNITY Interviewed by Pierre Scordia & Annie Clein – 25th May 2016 What path led you to your career as an actress, playwright and […]
THE CULT OF EVA
Inside the great hall of the State Historical Museum in Moscow, standing in front of a huge poster showing the image of Evita with words in Cyrillic “Ева Перон послом мира” (Eva Perón – ambassador of peace), she is ready for her speech. Dressed in black, with a large rose adorning her chest, somewhat unbalancing her outfit, the widow successfully makes herself the focus of attention. After some praise uttered by the Russian Minister of Culture, she finally begins to speak.
Is British pragmatism in danger?
Those who have not studied history will struggle to grasp the nuances between French and British political thought. The English, throughout their history, have never been obsessed with their constantly evolving language. Nowadays, nobody in the British Isles seems to care!