A revolutionary/counter-revolutionary phrase book
Almost one year on from the start of the protests that would end up toppling the regime of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, a vocabulary of dissent, revolution, and counter-revolution has evolved, with each new label carrying a mixed payload of…
Journalism with a cause
In part driving, and in part driven by, the still unfolding and highly contested “Arab Spring” is the equally remarkable transformation of Arab media culture, as many television broadcasters and newspapers in the region attempt to pull away from what…
Now we know what we know
Accurately conveying the work of academic thinkers is one of the more unexpectedly difficult jobs a beat reporter will take on: professorial prose is often abstruse and opaque to non-specialists, and it is time-consuming to develop even the minimal background…
Interesting and ambitious
Worth checking out: ZAM, a high-energy magazine about Africa with a cheeky sense of style, some great art direction, and a focus on the continent’s most interesting and ambitious designers, artists, musicians, and writers. Published in the Netherlands, with editorial…
The iconography of war and terror
In this media and advertising-saturated age, the power of images is hardly a point of debate. At their most banal, they grab our attention to make a sale; at their most elevated, they hold us spellbound in an art gallery….
Irish eyes aren’t smiling
One of the archetypal title sequences in television produced in the British Isles is comprised of shots of a 1930s automobile trundling up and down the gravel-paved roads of the Yorkshire Dales in the BBC’s long-running adaptation of James Herriot’s…
