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Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
Read more: Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the BarmakidsTales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…


By Heather Williams and David Evans On 8 April 2021, a new law was passed in France to allow teaching in state schools to take place by immersion in the various regional languages of the country. Proposed by Paul Molac,…

Twenty years ago the Dardenne brothers’ film Rosetta (1999) thrust Belgian cinema into the international spotlight by winning the top award at Cannes film festival for the first time. Belgian film culture is still widely celebrated, since, at the time…