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Cinema: Persepolis hits the UK

In front | REVIEW
Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi (Photo: ©2007 PROKINO Filmverleih GmbH)

Released on 25 April in an English-dubbed version, a review of Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated animation of a girl displaced in Vienna

by Jens Wiesner // 25/04/08

FEATURE

Exhibition brings Israel and Palestine 'face to face'

Face2Face is a unique and edgy photography show by French and Swiss friends JR and Marco, They stick the Israeli-Palestinian conflict right under European noses

by Virginie Gerhard // 21/03/08

NEWS
Authorised copy of the Eiffel Tower in a Chinese town (Photo: og2t/ Flickr)

Nuclear energy: new wave in Europe

Brussels goes far east, caps the CAP and ideologises nuclear energy in the first EU forum - take a bite of the latest news from Brussels

by Federico Poggi // 03/12/07

INVESTIGATION
UNIFIL observation base, Lebanon (Manila Tyce/ Flickr)

Lebanon: mirage of peace

After an Al Qaeda video threat aimed at the French and Spaniards on 21 September, Islamist groups in Lebanon are ready to finish with the apparently quietened situation in the 'Middle East's Switzerland'

by Carmen Rengel Ramos // 26/09/07

FEATURE
Caged in? (Photo: Pim de Kuijer)

Where Israel and Palestine meet

An astonishing eye-witness account of Israeli-Palestine exchanges at the checkpoints that divide the two peoples, followed by an update on EU-Palestine relations

by Pim de Kuijer // 26/07/07

INTERVIEW
Pictures of the late PM adorn his son's Beirut residence (Photo: Jacek Cerkaski)

Saad Hariri: 'impunity in Lebanon is unbearable'

The late prime minister's son speaks to European journalists in Beirut before the UN tribunal came into force on 10 June – the first bringing justice to an individual

by Kadri Kukk // 19/06/07

ANALYSIS
'Life between conservative lines': Aqa Bozorg Theological School, Kashan, Isfahan Province, May 2007 (Soudeh/ Roozbeh/ Farhang/ Flickr)

Iranian conservatives: 'Unnecessary provocation'

The atmosphere from within Iran is increasingly hostile - president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nuclear ambitions don't help

by Ulrich Schwerin // 22/05/07

FEATURE
Streets of Beirut (Photo: epape/ Flickr)

Interwar Lebanon tightens its belt

In pre-civil war ambience, how are the Lebanese making a living?

by Nicolas Kayser-Brill // 01/03/07

PANORAMA
Prodi and his left government: on the ropes (Photo: UE/ Wikimedia commons)

Italy: 'country of madmen'

Afghanistan - delicate name for European governments. Italy is bridging the gulf between its international obligations and the Senate

by Marco Agosta // 27/02/07

ANALYSIS
Nuclear complex in Natanz, Iran (Photo: Hamed Saber/ Flickr)

Iran: Security Council deadline looms

February 21 is the United Nations deadline for Resolution 1737 for Iran to stop its uranium-enrichment programme

by James Fontanella-Khan // 19/02/07

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"Schism" vs. "Fitna"

In response to Geert Wilders anti-Quran movie “Fitna”, several movies have been created displaying the bible as a work inciting violence which use the same methods as Wilders uses against Islam. However, their goal is not to inflame hatred against Christianity, but to reveal the manipulations affected by “Fitna”.

by mrt // 01/05/08




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