IRAN:
Ali Abbasi: holy spider
This is a political film that has chosen the thriller genre to exercise sharp social criticism against Iran. Like many of today's protesters in the country, the people behind the film were met with death threats and hate messages from the Iranian regime.
The guardianless faces
Ali Abbasi: holy spider
This is a political film that has chosen the thriller genre to exercise sharp social criticism against Iran. Like many of today's protesters in the country, the people behind the film were met with death threats and hate messages from the Iranian regime.
THE APPENDIX:
The periphery is being urbanised
The articles in this appendix of ORIENTERING shows which problems are linked to cities and poverty, pandemic, war, conflict, energy, food, flight, floods and fear.
Are you dreading Christmas shopping? This is how you can use your credit card in a profitable way this Christmas
If you want to make the Christmas shopping as cheap as possible, it can be profitable to use a credit card as a payment solution.
HELL:
Two testaments over life
Is it possible to simultaneously touch on four major themes, such as sin and evil, the desire for knowledge and conquest, relationships and competition, or the fear of death itself? Let me try in this essay – about Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Dante.
ENERGY:
Crystals, algae and ocean currents
MODERN TIMES's commentator Ole Seifert will in future regularly cover ecological technology and innovations. Various innovations in energy and power are presented here: ocean current turbines, solar power with ferroelectric crystals, hemp batteries and mechanical storage of excess power – which replaces batteries.
HERAT:
The Taliban – one year on
What does Afghanistan's Herat look like one year after the Taliban took over? Herat is the example of what Afghanistan could look like – as the city has 780 places on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This report gives a look from both the 1970s and today.
NO PLATFORMING:
Alice Walker, Anti-Semitism and the Price of Conscience
Under the heat of the Israel lobby, The Bay Area Book Festival humiliated one of the most gifted and courageous writers in the United States, Alice Walker. Do you remember her writing The Color Purple, for which she received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize?
MESSIANIAN THOUGHT OF VIOLENCE:
Shaul Magid: More Kahane. The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical
From Jewish identity in New York to messianic racism in the West Bank: The controversial rabbi Meir Kahane, whose thoughts live on with certain radical settlers in the West Bank, is the subject of a new and thorough biography.
"The New Jew"
Shaul Magid: More Kahane. The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical
From Jewish identity in New York to messianic racism in the West Bank: The controversial rabbi Meir Kahane, whose thoughts live on with certain radical settlers in the West Bank, is the subject of a new and thorough biography.
IKEA, Bratteli, Jewish property…
In the archives of the Swedish security police there is a secret folder from 1943 marked «Memorandum regarding: Nazi». In 1994, this file was opened by journalists in the newspaper ...
Shireen Abu Akleh: "Now is the time for your tears"
You might know Bob Dylan's The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll? About the black maid who was killed by the rich man's son Zanzinger? For every injustice, ...
FASCISM /
What happened to anti-Semitism?
TRANSLATED /
The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism
INTERVIEW /
Accused of being a "Jew hater"
JOURNALISM /
Hedges in MODERN TIMES
JERUSALEM /
A typical day in Sheikh Jarrah
NEW DECLARATION /
We look at two definitions of anti-Semitism
ANTISEMITTISM /
To criticize Israel
ESSAY:
Books that become waves
What happens when we listen to a book while we are also doing something completely different?
VENICE:
Why there is something and not just nothing
This year's Art Biennale in Venice feels like the end of a human-centered era, a time where man with his invulnerability, self-sufficiency, the white man as the center of the world is under attack. Now it is the woman's turn to ask the big questions, about the sanctity of life, about connectedness, about man and technology, about what comes after "man".
URBAN PLANNING /
Five urbanists – urban developers
RUSSIA / UKRAINE /
The war on our understanding of reality
ECO-COMMUNITY /
Organic villages
PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE /
To modernize an entire continent