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The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa

April 4, 2025
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A collage of screenshots from various William Wyler movies. Moving clockwise, a black and white photo of a group of people standing in a garden, a man sitting in a chariot that is being pulled by four white horses, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck look at a carved face in a stone wall, Barbra Streisand stands at the front of a boat wearing an orange coat and fur hat, and a black and white photo of a couple sitting together intimately

A Q&A with John Price on ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler

by John Price Tell us a bit about your book ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler is a collection of critical essays, by contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, on one of the most successful and awarded directors of…

Edinburgh University Press
April 7, 2023

The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

A Q&A with John Price on ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler

The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Towards a Promethean European Cosmo-politeia

New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart Dunmore

Echoes of Infamy: Four Notorious Crimes of Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Techno-Cognitivism: Reimagining Literature in the Age of Language Models