Dena Attar
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It could easily have been a more miserable week but I had an escape from the news, spending three days on and off at UCL’s international conference on Shakespeare and the Jews. The scholars presenting were from various academic disciplines as well as different countries: Renaissance history, theatre studies, translation studies, modern literature, 20th century history,…
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Is it time to give up on International Women’s Day? Yesterday Melania Trump hosted an IWD lunch and Slate carried a story explaining that no, Trump wasn’t actually launching an escort service in China that same day but merely protecting his brand name. Even without that stuff, it’s struck me that IWD has become a…
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Lethaby Gallery, Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, London N1C 4AA. It shows work by Central Saint Martins (UAL) students, staff and alumni. Opening times during exhibitions: Tuesday to Friday: 11am – 6pm Saturday: 12 noon – 5pm
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You’ll be awake if you’re reading this but are you also woke? Today’s experts in my recommended list research how politicians in the USA have made use of Twitter. They are Jason Gainous and Kevin Wagner, who published Tweeting to Power: the social media revolution in American politics. Because they’ve done a lot of serious…
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Things are still desperate. There is a hopeful moment in Ben Solomon’s interactive film report from the front line in East Mosul. ISIS forced their own hideous curriculum on schools, but in one school where he filmed, only 20% of the pupils had been turning up. Now with ISIS gone they are flocking back. West Mosul,…
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