MIDDLE EAST:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is cutting international cooperation
What significance does it have that the authorities have cut cultural support to a number of Norwegian actors working internationally? For example, Kirkelig Kulturverksted i Midtøsten?
GAZA:
No place is safe
The inhabitants are running for their lives and leaving their homes, without having a safe place to seek refuge from the massive attacks of the Israelis.
ATTACK:
Gaza: The causes need attention
The Western press and governments' coverage of the latest brutal Israeli attack on the Palestinians is historyless.
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST:
Freedom, equality and sisterhood
With topics such as forced marriage, child marriage, rape and honor killings, Professor Unni Wikan has studied people all her life, but not least – the Muslim. She has had to avoid that.
CHRONICLE:
Norway at the top of Europe in nationalism?
We constantly hear that Norway is the world's best country, but this is not necessarily the case for the vast majority of Norwegians and people who move here.
BRUCE MAU:
Massive change
How about looking back over 30 years, to be able to see and act into the future?
ENVIRONMENT:
What the Oslo Fjord needs most now
According to this article, the Norwegian Environment Agency's "Rescue Plan for the Oslo Fjord" talks down a real restoration of the fjord. Life on the shore and the fjord needs restoration on nature's own terms.
CITIES:
Ordinary diplomacy serves the state, urban diplomacy the people
America's new leaders have noted China's use of cities in its diplomacy. Is urban policy emerging as the new foreign policy?
EEA:
The alternatives to the EEA
It is almost thirty years since the EEA agreement was negotiated. The time should come for a political inventory.
CULTURAL HISTORY:
Amin Maalouf, Block Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, Alice Procter: Leo Afrikaneren, Caravans of Gold – Fragments in Time – Art Culture and Exchanges Across Medieval Saharan Africa, The Brutish Museums, The Whole Picture
It is necessary to relinquish ownership of colonial loot. The treasures of European museums have been stolen. And what about the Cultural History Museum in Oslo – which is also on the list of museums that have Benin's stolen bronze sculptures?
Africa and «the brutish museums»
Amin Maalouf, Block Museum of Art, Dan Hicks, Alice Procter: Leo Afrikaneren, Caravans of Gold – Fragments in Time – Art Culture and Exchanges Across Medieval Saharan Africa, The Brutish Museums, The Whole Picture
It is necessary to relinquish ownership of colonial loot. The treasures of European museums have been stolen. And what about the Cultural History Museum in Oslo – which is also on the list of museums that have Benin's stolen bronze sculptures?
TRAVEL ESSAY:
Under the sacred protection of Babas (Saddhus)
I spent the corona quarantine in an ashram in legendary Rishikesh, India, spiritually led by Juna Akhara naga babas – naked men smeared in human ashes.
