The truth revealed, at last, in Tahrir Square
The military was always an obstacle to democracy. Now everyone can see that
The Republicans’ fantasy of a Christian theocracy
The Republicans may demonize Islamists, but they think a lot like them
Seif al-Islam captured in the Sahara
Last of the Gaddafi clan was found in the Libyan desert near Ubari, which I visited in 2004
Hope or acquiescence in Myanmar?
Aung San Suu Kyi returns to politics, but is she a challenge to the junta or a cover?
Dreamy visions of Gaddafi at the London Review of Books
Hugh Roberts slams NATO for not negotiating with a man who vowed to fight to the last drop of blood
Video of the Egyptian army running over civilians with APCs
But the Egyptian army rules the country, so it is the protesters who face military trials
Peter Schjeldahl wanders blind through the Met’s new Islamic wing
He sees only difference where he ought to be able to see centuries of cultural exchange
There’s a soixante-huitard feel to these Occupy protests
Will Zuccotti Park be the Blvd Saint-Michel of our era? These posters suggest a similar spirit
The UN calls out the Iranian nuclear program
But what if Iran is just bluffing? Saddam did that and it worked for years
Gavin Russom plays Le Poisson Rouge
He designs and builds his own synthesizers and you can see what he’s up to this Wednesday
The last moment in history to see the tulou
The future is grim for China’s unique, centuries-old communal housing
On the Carsten Höller exhibit at the New Museum
There’s too little to experience for an exhibit called ‘Experience’ but the slide is exhilarating
On the Overblown Islamist Threat
Breathe deeply right-wingers: even the former Jordanian foreign minister doesn’t fear the Islamists
Portraits from Lima, Peru, 1916
Tiny pictures from Peru of men in uniform and the women they courted
On Arab intellectuals during the revolution
Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?
Hypnotism for Everybody by Pandit Lakshmi Doss, Chennai, India, 2004
It reflects a particularly Indian fondness for mystical possibility paired with a gift for gab
What to make of this 19th C. Arab-Chinese-Peruvian portrait?
Long distance cultural exchange began much earlier than we sometimes imagine
Robert Clark’s extraordinary photos of Peru
They are beautiful but also temporally confusing in unexpected ways
Reading the 1913 report on the discovery of Machu Picchu
How did Hiram Bingham ‘discover’ the Lost City of the Incas? He asked directions. Typical
Saudi women given the right to vote, at last
Too bad that no one’s vote counts much in Saudi, so it’s mostly symbolic
