Civilization
Erdogan’s conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque and the danger...
By Ulaş Ateşci and Alex Lantier
15 July 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decree Friday turning the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a working...
Acropolis and the British “cultural” piracy
Did England commit fraud to keep the Parthenon Sculptures?
2/27/2020
For the last two centuries, the British Museum in London has claimed ownership of the...
Rise in flat-Earthers should be roundly celebrated as good for science...
By Simon Chandler,
a London-based journalist focusing on politics and technology
17 Nov, 2019
Belief in a flat Earth is becoming fashionable. Scientists and other guardians of common...
Art theft? Iraq demands return of 3,000-yr-old Assyrian artefact up for...
30 Oct, 2018
A 3,000-year-old Assyrian sculpture is expected to sell for more than $10 million at a New York auction, but the forthcoming bidding...
Number of book readers in Turkey rises to 42% over 11...
4.11.2019
The rate of people reading books in Turkey rose from 30% to 42% in the last 11 years, according to a study.
The study conducted...
Interrogating the Cultural Production of Mexico
by Brian M. Napoletano
Jan 01, 2020
Jennifer Jolly, Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico: Art, Tourism, and Nation Building under Lázaro Cárdenas (Austin: University of Texas Press,...
Trump, the psychopath in the White House. The sites he wants...
In pictures: Iran's sites of cultural importance
6 January 2020
Following the assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, US President Donald Trump has threatened to...
Trump threatens to destroy Important Iranian cultural sites
Trump's Latest Iran Tweet Slammed as Threat 'To Commit War Crimes'
Biden, Warren, Ocasio-Cortez and others ripped into Trump for claiming the U.S. military would...
Ambassadors’ conference – Speech by M. Emmanuel Macron, President of the...
Paris, 27 August 2019
Presidents,
Prime Minister,
Ministers,
Members of Parliament,
Ambassadors,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Dear friends,
I was very hesitant to come and address you today. Nevertheless, I wanted to honour...
La guerre contre la culture israelienne et la fascisation du regime...
Miri Reguev met la culture au pas des « valeurs nationales »
J’ai a plusieurs occasions ecrit dans cette chronique sur notre ministre de la...