投稿者: Saeed Kamali Dehghan
The artist, who has an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery, created a unique body of work from jail uniforms, soap and lids while detained by Myanmar’s regimeThe Burmese painter Htein Lin’s art bears the imprint of his years in a Myanmar jail, wher…
A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country – shows how the repressive 11-year regime of Zia-ul-Haq triggered an extraordinary resistanceThe 11-year religious dictatorship of General Zia…
Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundingsFrom a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yorùbá cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giz…
Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gather…
From Pakistan to Iran, a new generation is learning traditional crafts and taking their knowledge back homeThe small city of Nasarpur in Pakistan has a centuries-old reputation for its ceramics. That’s why, when the ceramic worker Ghulam Hyder Daudpota…
Themes of displacement and diaspora explored in collaborative textile project as part of The Spirits of Maritime Crossing exhibition in Venice and BangkokThe Koung Jor refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border is just three and half hours from Jakkai Sir…
The story of girl’s refusal to be shamed by her gang-rape and a father’s fight for justice, defying a village’s hostility and the dead weight of patriarchy, is told in Nisha Pahuja’s film To Kill a TigerWhen his 13-year-old daughter stumbled home six y…
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is revered as a founder of modern India and for his work fighting the caste system. A new documentary looks at his lasting popularityThere may only be a few people outside the subcontinent who have heard of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar…
Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer‘Hell-on-earth excruciating pain,” is how Ruhi Singh* describes her exp…
With high salt levels in traditional dishes linked to disease, health campaigners are urging change, from product labels to suggestions for alternative seasoningKazakhstan’s national cuisine is not complete without salt. It is in everything from kurt, …
Stefan Dercon, former UK government adviser, discusses his new book – and his belief that wealthy elites, rather than foreign cash, rescue countries from povertyA former government economist has said that aid is “close to irrelevant” in solving the pro…
Technique using artificial scabs made from a patient’s own blood could also help those with diabetes, say doctorsDoctors at a Nepal hospital trialling a new treatment for skin wounds say the technique, which mimics the scabbing process, has “enormous p…
Bans failed to stop farmers torching fields each year but a new spray that turns stalks into fertiliser helps the soil and the airEvery autumn, Anil Kalyan, from Kutail village in India’s northern state of Haryana, would join tens of thousands of other…
The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women’s rightsAt the village of Kasegaon, in India’s rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a U…
Refugee organisation says 30m new displacements last year were due to floods, storms or wildfiresIntense storms and flooding triggered three times more displacements than violent conflicts did last year, as the number of people internally displaced wor…