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Culture09 Jun
Sulaf Fawakherji's "Land of" and the public role of the Syrian artist in a long war
Culture09 Jun
Sudan's war-crimes complaint lands in Nairobi: a test of universal jurisdiction from the Global South
Culture09 Jun
How the 'Ramadan War' frame took hold โ and what it tells us about coverage of Israel and Iran
Culture09 Jun
The Duffers' prequel is closing: what 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' tells us about the economics of Netflix IP on stage
Culture09 Jun
Tehran rewrites the rules of the university entrance exam, in a system already built for memorisation
Culture09 Jun
The public sector equality duty: twenty years of friction, one Conservative pitch to dismantle it
Culture09 Jun
A Tehran exhibition venue gets a new boss: what the Shahr-e Aftab reshuffle signals
Culture09 Jun
Tehran hands out medals to Western and Indian voices: what the 'Right Side of History' ceremony actually signals
Culture09 Jun
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and the choreography of Iranian diplomacy: what a televised pushback really tells us
Culture09 Jun
Tehran stages โRight Side of Historyโ medals at Khomeini mausoleum as Iranโs wartime commemorations evolve
Culture09 Jun
The Jersey as a Geopolitics: Reading State Capital, Soft Power and Sweat Inside the Modern Football Kit
Culture09 Jun
Iran's Lake Urmia returns, but agriculture ministry warns the fight is far from over
Culture09 Jun
Starobelsk film asks what a drone strike sounds like to the students underneath it
Culture09 Jun
A Rs 15 lakh gamble that paid: what a Tamil filmโs 6.6x return says about Indian cinemaโs economics
Culture09 Jun
Bulletproof Festival opens in London with Maruja, SPRINTS and Pussy Riot as inaugural headliners
Culture09 Jun
Section 702 renewal stalls as Trump meets Speaker Johnson with surveillance clock running
Culture09 Jun
Tehran stages 'Right Side of History' medal ceremony, recasting the Palestinian cause as a global honour roll
Culture09 Jun
In Leipzig, a Bach festival bets that audiences still want a vote
Culture09 Jun
The meme that misread a border: how a Polish X post flattened a PolishโUkrainian relationship into a one-liner
Culture09 Jun
India's Civil-Services Quiz Industry Meets an Old Syllabus: A Reading List From the Week 157 Set
Culture09 Jun
Iran reverses course on university entrance exams, restoring eleventh-grade averages as a weighted factor
Culture09 Jun
A life sentence for the son of a Ukrainian actor who played the president: Russia's wartime message to cultural defectors
Culture09 Jun
Religious extremism inside Russian penal colonies is testing the system's grip on its own prisons
Culture09 Jun
Cuban academic centres take their blockade complaint to the world โ and ask what culture can do when diplomacy is frozen
Culture09 Jun
Tehran-Tirana row resurfaces as Iran rebukes Albanian PM over citizenship remarks
Culture09 Jun
Iran's environmental guardians retreat: Semnan shuts a dozen protection posts as manpower thins
Culture09 Jun
EU lawmakers urge Brussels to legislate against the killing of paid-for video games
Culture09 Jun
The US is losing Pakistan. Beijing is already inside
Culture09 Jun
When AI dreams of Havana: how algorithmic imagery is rewriting Cuba's past
Culture09 Jun
The mood machine: how Russian-language platforms are arguing about their own negativity
Culture09 Jun
When a photo album becomes a memorial: grief, surveillance, and the cost of China's data build-out
Culture09 Jun
Three Hong Kong courtroom stories in one morning reveal a city working through its own contradictions
Culture09 Jun
Israeli flags in Tirana, then down in hours: Albania's Israel Cultural Week opens into a country already on edge
Culture09 Jun
West Ham's Sullivan faces forced-sale test as football's new regulator takes aim at legacy owners
Culture09 Jun
Khamenei-aligned channel surfaces documentary on Khomeini as 'fragrance fades' framing stirs debate
Culture09 Jun
Tirana's brief flag flap: how a week of Israeli cultural diplomacy unravelled in hours
Culture09 Jun
Patwardhan's YouTube removal reignites a familiar fight over who decides what Indian documentary can be seen
Culture09 Jun
Tirana in the crossfire: how a flamingo protest became an IranโAlbania diplomatic flashpoint
Culture09 Jun
Washington wades into Britain's online-safety fight โ and quietly redraws the map for the 2026 World Cup
Culture09 Jun
Russian geology goes on tour: Karpinsky Institute courts Saudi Arabia at SPIEF-2026
Culture09 Jun
Iran's handicraft workshops bear the cost of a 12-day war
Culture09 Jun
A Silent Cello Resurfaces: John Constable's Other Instrument Speaks After a Century
Culture09 Jun
Seventeen months in, Israel moves Palestinian doctor Abu Safiya into solitary confinement
Culture09 Jun
Iran's craft sector counts its war losses โ and asks who pays for the rest
Culture09 Jun
Iran bets on a state-backed handicraft exporter to widen its non-oil revenue base
Culture09 Jun
Israel's muezzin bill reignites dispute over Al-Aqsa soundscape
Culture09 Jun
Iran's Quiet Wetland Restoration Push Reaches 226 Sites, and Tells a Larger Story
Culture09 Jun
Senate rebuke of Trump intelligence pick exposes widening GOP rift over security state
Culture09 Jun
Lyhanna's death and the long reckoning inside France's child-protection system
Culture09 Jun
Seven Georgians face Paris court over theft of rare Russian literary classics
Culture09 Jun
Lake Urmia's 18-fold rebound puts Iran's salinity crisis back on the table
Culture09 Jun
Shanghai's twin film festivals open with Lujiazui skyline as backdrop, signalling a year of state-backed screen diplomacy
Culture09 Jun
Pushkin, soft power, and the optics of Russian culture in Vienna
Culture09 Jun
A philosopher's quiet case against cultural subjection: reading KC Bhattacharyya in 2026
Culture09 Jun
Peddi's Rs 300-crore sprint: what five days of Telugu box-office tells us about the Indian theatrical economy
Culture09 Jun
In Pyongyang, Xi backs Kim and resets the ChinaโDPRK axis for a tougher era
Culture09 Jun
Two million views, in zลoty: what a mid-tier Polish YouTube hit actually pays
Culture09 Jun
Tokenised equities land on ZIGChain as Ondo deepens its push into emerging-market rails
Culture09 Jun
ABC begins covert search for Justin Stevens's replacement, signalling bigger shake-up at the national broadcaster
Culture09 Jun
MTN's Streaming Push Tests Whether African Telcos Can Outflank Global Streamers
Culture09 Jun
Counter-drone net over America: what the World Cup security plan tells us about the next era of mass-event defence
Culture09 Jun
Federer to return to US Open for one-night exhibition in 2026
Culture09 Jun
Grossi pushes back as Iran questions his neutrality on nuclear file
Culture09 Jun
Patrick Bruel faces new complaints as French cultural establishment confronts a reckoning
Culture09 Jun
Netflix's live-action 'Scooby-Doo: Origins' teaser lands โ and the IP arms race behind it
Culture09 Jun
Shift Up's Evie and the new rules of character design in the post-Stellar Blade era
Culture09 Jun
A night in Starobelsk: the documentary that names Ukraine's drone war on a vocational college
Culture09 Jun
Russia's Ulyanov questions IAEA chief's resolve as Iran nuclear talks reach a credibility fork
Culture09 Jun
Senegal's democratic test: when 'growth of the people' meets the politics of arrest
Culture09 Jun
The 'cancel culture' double standard: how a familiar phrase tracks a familiar pattern
Culture09 Jun
Lviv lease extension buys Polish cultural society a year โ and a longer shadow
Culture09 Jun
Strike on Tyre: Lebanon's cultural ministry denounces Israeli attacks on historic sites
Culture09 Jun
The White House as arena: a UFC card, a World Cup task force, and a presidency that now stages itself
Culture08 Jun
Netflix bets on a live-action Scooby-Doo, again, and the IP economy tells you why
Culture08 Jun
A Gaza school director's cancer surgery is hostage to a medical corridor that no longer exists
Culture08 Jun
FBI readies nationwide crisis posture as 7 million spectators converge on 2026 World Cup
Culture08 Jun
Rotherham's long shadow: what a 1,400-child inquiry says about the British state's reluctance to name a problem
Culture08 Jun
Who gets cancelled, and who decides: a culture-war catchphrase meets a press-freedom record
Culture08 Jun
At 57, a Russian grandmother is a world knife-throwing champion. Her sport tells a different story about wartime Russia.
Culture08 Jun
Equity's AI gamble: why the UK stage union is taking its SAG-AFTRA playbook transatlantic
Culture08 Jun
Tehran frames itself as a frontline: inside the 'Tehran, the front line of resistance' photo exhibition
Culture08 Jun
A French justice minister, a murdered child, and a state that can't explain itself
Culture08 Jun
Tirana's Israeli flags and the geometry of Albanian dissent
Culture08 Jun
Under the Big Top Again: Moscow's Idol Circus Festival and the Soft-Power Arithmetic of Performance
Culture08 Jun
Iran's Yazd province shuts down as dust storm turns air unbreathable
Culture08 Jun
The White House, a Cage and a World Cup: How the 2026 Spectacle Is Becoming a Federal Project
Culture08 Jun
Two Beachfront Incidents Rattle India's Coast: A Glass-Shard Scare in Goa and a Fatal Stampede in Mumbai
Culture08 Jun
Tehran's humanities academy caught in a credibility fight โ and the academics are watching
Culture08 Jun
When the 'hero' returns: Russia's veteran crime wave and the cost of the glory narrative
Culture08 Jun
IAEA draft resolution on Iran lands as Grossi puts technical cooperation back at centre of the argument
Culture08 Jun
John Oliver takes on the New College of Florida remake: satire, but whose politics?
Culture08 Jun
Israel's cultural calendar goes dark as the war with Iran reaches the concert hall
Culture08 Jun
Tehran's cultural diplomacy turns on a single phrase: 'a common treacherous enemy'
Culture08 Jun
Iran's culture minister draws a shared-threat line in Beirut
Culture08 Jun
A Mexican sculptor's Russian welcome runs into a paperwork wall: the Legarreta deportation case
Culture08 Jun
Israel and Iran return to open war โ and the global economy absorbs the shock
Culture08 Jun
When the bakery becomes a battleground: pets, public health, and the new etiquette wars
Culture08 Jun
The Multiple Behind the Index: How Price-to-Sales Redefined the S&P 500
Culture08 Jun
Iran's own intellectuals are warning that media illiteracy has become a strategic vulnerability
Culture08 Jun