Oppression is not a point of view
Watch the 2025 IPAF Ceremony here. ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly May 7, 2025 In conversation with Elena Pare Egyptian author Mohamed Samir Nada’s dystopian novel Prayer of Anxiety won the 2025 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. It is his third novel, although — in this conversation — he reveals an unpublished prolificity, alongside his job as a
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America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian, 10 November 2024 In hindsight, 2016 was the beginning of the beginning. And 2024 is the end of that beginning and the start of something much, much worse.
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It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell By Stephen Buranyi The Guardian, 27 June 2017 In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein Research in London, made a bet that the dominant firm in one of the most
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This project, funded by UiO:Democracy, explores how medical knowledge is mobilized in debates about abortion through corpus-based analysis At the heart of the controversy over abortion rights are disagreements about key democratic concepts such as rights, autonomy, privacy and freedom, making the right to abortion one of the most contested in the world. MEDRA explores the
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Covering Note The Ethics of Volunteerism Attila Piróth and Mona Baker October 2019 Some background to our decision to publish this article independently is in order. First, neither of us is under pressure to publish at all. Attila is a professional translator whose career would hardly benefit from a scholarly publication, and may even be negatively impacted by
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