It’s an understatement to say that Dolly Parton, who died on Tuesday, was many things to many people. She ...

When Casablanca went into production in the spring of 1942, most of Morocco was a French protectorate, administered by the Vichy regime. The film was a hasty project, with excellent anti-Nazi ...

Taybeh, on a hilltop near Ramallah, is the site of the Middle East’s oldest microbrewery, which produces Palestine’s most exported beer. The Christian village – a mixture of Greek Orthodox and ...

On 10 August, three days after the inauguration of President Abelardo de la Espriella, Colombia experienced a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, the country’s worst since 1979. With the epicentre in San José ...

The Wittockiana museum has a slight air of mystery. Deep in suburban Brussels, crouching discreetly behind ramparts of greenery, it’s an elegant but inscrutable concrete and glass bunker. By the ...

I spent the most formative time of my life, the years 1931-33, as a Gymnasiast and would-be Communist militant, in the dying Weimar Republic. Last autumn I was asked to recall that time in an online ...

Not for the first time, theorists of politics are turning to the unconscious and its strange workings – repression and fantasy, libido and death drive, disavowal and displacement – to understand the ...

Faridoon Tofan wanted to see Rome. The 46-year-old Afghan national had been living in Germany since 2022 without leaving the country. His asylum claim had been rejected but he had been granted a ...