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The imperative issued by Levi’s text is not that one should persist in seeing the human in the inhuman. It is more like its opposite: that one bear must witness to the inhuman in the human.
Vietnamese walls were once densely populated by hand-painted signs, a material culture now exceedingly rare.
There is something troubling in the thought of people being made to aspire to heights that are literally beyond their reach.
Objections from certain sectors of Malaysian society to the film neatly illustrates both the fear and lack of understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the country.
The pastiche-style poster art ubiquitous in Egyptian houses and businesses reveals how locals imagine far-off landscapes, idealise nature and define beauty.
Some deride a Carnival trend in which women revel in the streets wearing swimsuits and feather boas. But to feminists, ‘bikini mas’ is a highly political act.
Pakistani pulp fiction often portrays Hindu characters as evil demons and Muslims as heroes, an attempt to spread nationalist ideology.
Since the 1970s, several Asian countries, such as China, Japan, and South Korea, have strongly increased their influence in the Olympic movement.
The best of global cinema from Germany to Iran and Vanuatu.
Are the the hauntings at Landour just practical fictions amidst the solitude of the hills?
Pakistan’s rich visual and poetic culture is expressed every day on walls, rickshaws and buses. As the country struggles to offer solace to its people, they carry its narratives and emotions.
The case of tourist behaviour is especially interesting for debates about ethical decision-making.
A common place of worship in India and Pakistan offers solace and bonds religious minorities in Pakistan.
We must know people as they would like to be known, not as some dominant power has decided we shall know them.
What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
Politics is a world for which show business celebrities are perfectly adapted and their predominance in the Philippines offers a glimpse of what televisual populism could look like in other countries.
No one likes a white supremacist, but is violence the answer?
There is an era that lends itself rather closer than the tired Nazi comparisons of Donald Trump. And it may have a far more useful message for us today.
Europe is at a crossroads in how it integrates religious minorities. But there are lessons to be learned beyond liberal secularism.
Indian elites’ extravagant weddings are a show of strength, a glamorised return to traditions, and a celebration of social conservatism.
Christians’ plight in Pakistan reflects the confused identity and ideologies of the country they live in.
Is UNESCO’s prestigious lists of tangible and intangible heritage damaging the very existence of the sites on them?
Performance politics has made Donald Trump the new president of the United States. But this is far from new to south India, where the mixing of cinema and politics has a long history.
Scandinavia’s innovative education models present a more diverse and realistic image of the world we live in, and steer clear of gender stereotypes.