For over a century, filmmakers in West and Central Africa have been making documentaries. This region included the colonies of French West and Equatorial Africa and now encompasses fourteen nations and nearly 200 million people. Documentarists in these countries have made important contributions not only to global cinema but also to our ......
For over a century, filmmakers in West and Central Africa have been making documentaries. This region included the colonies of French West and Equatorial Africa and now encompasses fourteen nations and nearly 200 million people. Documentarists in these countries have made important contributions not only to global cinema but also to our ......
As record-breaking wildfires moved across eastern Canada and record rainfalls flooded Dubai; as billionaires offshored immense profits while so-called essential workers risked their lives during a pandemic; resources, knowledge, and even life itself are increasingly privatized-and disruptions have become the status quo to ensure as much. ......
As record-breaking wildfires moved across eastern Canada and record rainfalls flooded Dubai; as billionaires offshored immense profits while so-called essential workers risked their lives during a pandemic; resources, knowledge, and even life itself are increasingly privatized-and disruptions have become the status quo to ensure as much. ......
Mutual aid or zakat giving is a sacred practice in Islam. In Palestinian neighborhoods of the West Bank, where the Islamic tradition shapes public life, a simple gift of money or food to a person in need can invoke the presence of God. In Divine Money, Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations provide critical ......
Mutual aid or zakat giving is a sacred practice in Islam. In Palestinian neighborhoods of the West Bank, where the Islamic tradition shapes public life, a simple gift of money or food to a person in need can invoke the presence of God. In Divine Money, Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations provide critical ......
The Influence of Poe, Wagner, and Baudelaire on Debussy's Modernist Aesthetics
The arabesque, a crucial component of nineteenth-century aesthetics characterized by recurring patterns of interlocking geometric and floral ornamentation, was found in a wide range of forms of artistic expression and played a pivotal role in the music of Claude Debussy. Divine Arabesque explores the arabesque in Debussy's music and reveals its ......
The Influence of Poe, Wagner, and Baudelaire on Debussy's Modernist Aesthetics
The arabesque, a crucial component of nineteenth-century aesthetics characterized by recurring patterns of interlocking geometric and floral ornamentation, was found in a wide range of forms of artistic expression and played a pivotal role in the music of Claude Debussy. Divine Arabesque explores the arabesque in Debussy's music and reveals its ......
The Hungarian Revolution and the United Nations 1956-1963
Between 1956 and 1963, the United Nations grappled with the "Hungarian question"; namely, what it should do about the events and aftermath of the country's 1956 Revolution. Cold War tensions, anxieties over the concurrent Suez crisis, and ignorance and indifference about Hungary influenced how UN member states responded to this "internal affair" ......
