Michele Ernsting talks to leading Arab intellectual Fouad Ajami, the director of Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University, about “The Cairo Trilogy”, one of the world’s most important works […]
Monthly Archives: August 2006
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In this award-winning programme, we look at the changes and shifts in family life in China in the early 20th century. Maoist China’s family policy had already done away with […]
The ancient Indian practice of “sati” or “suttee” — widow-burning — was banned under British colonial rule in 1829. But in modern-day India, the plight of a woman who loses […]
James Meek talks about his latest novel “A People’s Act of Love”. The book interweaves a number of complex themes including castration, cannibalism, love and revolution. James Meek has covered […]