Spanish filmmaker Carlota Pereda will become the first Spanish director and the fourth woman of any nationality to open the Sitges Film Festival, the world’s leading festival for fantasy and horror cinema,
“We were the first city invaded on 22 September 1980 by Saddam’s army,” Dr Reza John Vedadi recalled of Khorramshahr, his birthplace, highlighting the formative impact of war and displacement on his
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Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $14 trillion under management, delivered a stark warning about the global economy amid the ongoing conflict in Iran in
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What does it mean to grow up in a state before it becomes a state, and to watch it expand beyond recognition within a single lifetime? How does a person who describes
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Who decides the future of Iran? Who holds the authority to speak for a people under repression? These are questions that have guided the work of Emily Schrader, an American-born journalist, activist,
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Dr Melody Sucharewicz is a former spokesperson and strategic advisor for the Israeli government, with extensive experience in public diplomacy and communications in conflict situations. Born in Germany, she moved to Israel,
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“Something has gone terribly wrong… We are the victim of a system.” Ronny (formerly Aharon Leshno-Yaar), a former Israeli diplomat, doesn’t ease into his critique of the United Nations. After nearly four
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“This conflict with Iran is not regional. It is” – in his words – “a war really for the West, for free societies. And I am very much in favour of any
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For nearly five decades, Javier Gurruchaga has lived at the intersection of theater, music and spectacle. The Spanish performer, singer and actor built a career on flamboyance, irreverence and a refusal to
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You must imagine what it must have been for Griselda Lobo Silva, who was born and raised in a farm in La Paz (Colombia), to have seen these young people walk through
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by Our Defence Affairs Editor “The war has expanded to the Indian Ocean, if not the Indo-Pacific. And the sinking of the Iranian warship, while within the boundaries of what is permissible
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor “War with Iran is inevitable and it is a matter of time, and the precise moment,” a top Israeli defence expert told the Sri Lanka Guardian, recalling
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Her trajectory into academia was not the result of a conventional intellectual progression but of rupture, recovery, and reorientation following frontline military service in the Israel Defense Forces. Rather than emerging from
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by Our Foreign Affairs Editor “We need today to stop asking the victims to do more because the victims, the Palestinian victims, have offered and have done everything required by them in
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor in Colombo No Russian investment is flowing into Sri Lanka despite strong Russian interest in boosting the country’s economy, and Russian citizens are barred from using cards,
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In this interview, former Bangladeshi ambassador Mohammad Harun Al Rashid delivers a blunt assessment of the political upheaval in his country, describing recent developments as “not merely political regression; it is civilizational
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