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    Chibli Mallat introduces 'Democracy Redefined' and explores the Lebanese Constitution's history and its unique approach to democracy.

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Walter Scott’s Seven Deadly Tales

  • Language and Literature / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies / Scottish Literature

by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to…

  • ByKirsty Crosbie
  • OnJune 7, 2021

A Sociologist and a Philosopher Attempt to Learn from COVID

  • Ancient Philosophy / History / Philosophy / Political Philosophy / Politics / Politics, Philosophy and Religion / Sociology / World History

Edward Avery-Natale, interviewed by Colin C. Smith My childhood friend Dr. Edward Avery-Natale is a professor of contemporary sociology, while…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnJune 2, 2021

Theologies of Reading

  • Language and Literature / Literary Theory / Post 19th Century Literary Studies / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies / Religion

By Laura McCormick Kilbride, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, and Simone Kotva Is reading a theological activity? This is a question which…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnMay 31, 2021

In Memoriam Sophinette Becker (1950-2019): Appreciation of new thoughts on sexuality, psychoanalysis and politics from the past

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By Patrick Henze-Lindhorst Stubborn, a loving mentor and dedicated therapist, and an acutely perceptive authority on countless political and theoretical…

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  • OnMay 24, 2021

Marvel’s Scarlet Witch: From Page to Screen

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by Miriam Kent Wanda Maximoff, known as the Scarlet Witch, is one of Marvel’s most enduring characters. Her history has…

  • ByHelena Heald
  • OnMay 20, 2021

Kenneth White on the Breton Coast (The Fundamental Field)

Photograph of the Breton coast, showing sky with sunlight through clouds on a grey sea with distant mountains on the horizon
  • Philosophy / Scottish Literature

William Sharp evokes ‘those wild Breton coasts of the Tréguier headland’ with the ‘grey, muttering waste’ of the sea. Little did I realise, when I must have read these phrases at the age of 14 on a cliff overlooking the north end of the village of Fairlie, in Ayrshire, Scotland that years later I would be living in that self-same area.

  • ByNaomi Farmer
  • OnMay 19, 2021

Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution in Five Questions

Photo taken by the author at Bagh-e ketab, the Book Garden, Tehran (December 2017). The image shows a shelf full of Persian language books in a large bookstore.
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By Laetitia Nanquette Laetitia Nanquette, author of Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the…

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St. Helen’s, the East India Company and Shakespeare

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by Geoffrey Marsh Wednesday 31 December 1600 is one of the pivotal dates in English history. It was not only…

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  • OnMay 14, 2021

Stars in Cars: A Look at Italian Vehicular Stardom

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  • Film and TV

by Alberto Zambenedetti Sophia Loren relaxing by the side of the road, next to her broken-down Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing.…

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