I have previously written about how, for Turkish Cypriots, the tragic events of 1963 to 1964 marked a profound rupture, ...

Do portmanteau films ever work, or is their very structure the thing which weakens them as story-telling devices?

From Paris stages to WWII spy missions, Josephine Baker fought racism and antisemitism while inspiring generations worldwide.

It’s been called a love letter to Italy and a grand tour through the nation’s history and culture. The Dolce&Gabbana fashion ...

A recent brief survey of young people (under the age of 40) revealed they had no knowledge of the true pioneers of mas. To most, it started with Harts (not ...

A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a relationship that inspired some of the most celebrated Arabic ...

Kim Jeong-ok (金正鈺, 94 years old), a director of the Free Theatre Troupe who became the first Asian president of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute (ITI), passed away at 5:30 a.m. on the 17th.

They knew how to work. They learned it as kids, working in the beet fields of Morrill County, Nebraska. Theodore Bill “Ted” Vassos and LaVera Gustin “Vera” Vassos grew up near Bayard and Bridgeport, ...

Long before Newcomb Hall opened, Madison Hall, built in 1905 as the first university-based YMCA in the country, provided some ...