“Every bombed village is my hometown”
poem by nikita gill inspired by a James Baldwin quote
Artist France-Lise McGurn on Making Painting Less Precious
France-Lise McGurn was born in Glasgow in 1983. She studied her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee, in 2005, her MA at the Royal College of Art, London, and her…
Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites
This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran
Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant.
His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran’s infrastructure from attack.
The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place? When and where did we first domesticate it? And why oh why does it get…
Organic farming as a career choice: Italy’s young farmers | DW Documentary
Astonishing new data from the Italian farmers' association: More and more young people are moving away from cities to rural areas in order to work in farming. For many, it’s…
Antarctica Has An Accent
Accents: Everybody has one. They usually tell us something about where a person is from, or what languages they speak. But there's one accent that is so new that nobody…
The Cure – MTV Unplugged
(London, 1991)
King Kong (1933 film)
King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure horror monster film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien and…
How Muslims Influenced Thomas Jefferson and America’s Founders | American Muslims
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Qur’an? That George Washington owned enslaved people who were Muslim? And that a Muslim diplomat broke his Ramadan fast…