A new biography of Stephen Hawking presents the renowned physicist not simply as a scientific celebrity who overcame severe disability, but as a researcher whose relationships, intellectual clarity and determination were central
In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst
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It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural
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Editor’s Note: Most of the world has never heard of Liamine Zeroual. That itself is part of his story. He was the sixth President of Algeria — a nation of 46 million,
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by Durga Matti Friedman’s Out of the Sky presents itself as a work of recovery: a retrieval of marginal figures—Jewish parachutists in the Second World War—whose stories have been submerged beneath more
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by Eric Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara confronts readers with a world of moral ambiguity, social collapse, and personal despair, set against the backdrop of Algeria at the precipice of
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by Luxman Roger Seifert’s Solidarity with Strings is an ambitious and uncompromising intervention into the historiography of British labour and its entanglements with colonial struggles in the Caribbean. At once a work
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When Britain faced the formidable threat of Nazi Germany in September 1939, the support of its global empire became a lifeline for the embattled nation. Across continents, from Canada and Australia to
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The world is facing an oil crisis of historic proportions as the ongoing United States-Israeli war on Iran has effectively shut down much of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow chokepoint through
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In a revelation that reads like a blend of science fiction and geopolitical ambition, declassified documents outline a bold and controversial plan to construct a sea-level canal across Israel’s Negev Desert using
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On a volcanic plateau in central Anatolia, Turkey, some 15,800 years ago, a female dog gave birth to a litter of puppies. The young pups did not survive long, possibly only a
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In a region defined by enduring conflict and rigid identities, few realize that Shi’ite Islam and Orthodox Judaism share striking ideological parallels. According to reporting by Haaretz, these parallels are not coincidental
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Why didn’t Premadasa queue up when Saddam was killed? ‘All this is because of Trump…’‘He managed the country beautifully…’‘Oh… what can the government do?’ ‘During Gota’s time, oil was lost because of
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When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs, emperors, and kings whose power seemed inseparable from the territorial
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The hidden world of Cold War intelligence operations has long fascinated historians, but newly resurfaced and declassified documents are shedding fresh light on some of the most controversial experiments ever conducted by
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Archaeologists working in south-eastern Spain have uncovered rare evidence that sheds new light on how textiles were produced more than three millennia ago. The discovery of charred wooden timbers, plant-fiber ropes, and
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