Pop music and youth culture are known to be among the great British exports of the late twentieth century. Be…
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Tell us a bit about The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945 My book is about the Pilgrims Society, which…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
In 1963, Jean-Luc Nancy tackled the subject of generational silence in his article ‘A Certain Silence’ (republished in OLR in…
At the recent Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Theresa May’s speech turned into the stuff of every presenter’s nightmares, something…
Since the Federal Republic of Germany’s admission into NATO in 1955, German–American relations have been a cornerstone of transatlantic and…
‘A future politics is given there so powerfully that it’s present as a trace even in certain reactions that, in…
A woman walks across a bridge. She is looking at her mobile. She seems to be in a hurry. Close…
By Tahir Abbas Turkey is a beguiling country. It straddles one of the most important geopolitical fault lines in the…
We stayed up all night to watch. When the polling returns came in, we had to pinch ourselves. Was it…