The Miracle of the Arab Language
A few weeks ago, I found myself repeatedly humming a tune of a well-known Arabic song lamenting the loss of Andalusia and its splendour.
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Vincent Guy
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American Paradox
The other day I was pulled up short by a headline from the USA that a school district in the state of Utah had banned the Bible, King James’
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Stoker
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A Hard Seventy Years
An envied British institution. No, not the National Health Service. Something much more enviable. This year is the 70th anniversary of The
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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Bring up the bodies
No, despite the title, I am not reviewing the second book in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy on Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell.
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Eric Boa
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Is Planting Native Trees Preferable?
I first came across Fraxinus uhdei in Colombia in 1998. It’s a species of ash tree from Mexico, known in Colombia as urapán...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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Rwanda: An African Phoenix
I was drinking a Mützig beer near Bukavu on the Congo border a week ago with a Rwandan when the BBC World Service headlines described a...
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Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
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The First Internationalist
For the last six months or so, I have been engaged in a mammoth reading project which is the biggest one I have ever undertaken...
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Richard Pooley
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Hosting Ukrainians – one year on
"Odesa. The doctor I went to in London. Remember? I read this morning: her clinic in Odesa was less than a kilometre from where those...
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Lynda Goetz
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Grasses
‘The Death of Grass’ is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1956 by English novelist Samuel Youd under the pen name John Christopher...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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In praise of Jewry
I am frequently surprised by concatenation, when a series of events, issues or conversations occur more or less at the same time...
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