Culture / Diplomacy
Art attack
Today most countries prefer to assert their international identity with artists not armies. We profile the cultural missions of four countries out to win friends with dancing dragons and alternative art.
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Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 10 September
Political stunts and showmanship – remembering 9/11
Dawn will break on Saturday in New York, and if September 11, 2010 is a nice day – clear, crisp air, few clouds, cerulean sky – everyone will note that September 11, 2001 began in exactly the same way.
Business / CEOs
Safety net
An epidemic is threatening 1.2 billion people. Let’s be grateful then for people like Kimmo Alkio, CEO and president of F-Secure, who aims to stamp out the modern-day blight of spam email and also comes to the rescue when…
Affairs / Society
The show goes on
Despite being targeted by a bomb attack in which she lost an arm and leg, political TV journalist May Chidiac, a staunch critic of Syria, remains defiant and is back presenting for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 27 September
Now it’s serious
Have the latest revelations about a secret uranium-enrichment plant made an Israeli attack in Iran more probable, imminent even?
Affairs / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Thursday 14 January
A strong sense of hummus
Forget military threats and terrorist attacks, Lebanese and Israelis have a new battle on their plates: hummus. The latest episode took place last Friday.
Culture / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 4 September
9/11 – How the art world commemorates
For New Yorkers, the attacks of September 11, 2001 called everything into question — not least for artists, who struggled to understand and commemorate the deadliest day in the city’s history.
The Briefing, episode 201
News from Egypt’s Sinai border attacks, we look at the state of Spanish media, and have breakfast in America with Aisha Speirs.
The Briefing, episode 100
Why the Taliban is talking tough on American operations, Hungary’s Prime Minister attacks the EU, and what the Japanese think of nuclear power.
The Briefing, episode 229
We measure the US response to attacks on its embassies, discuss the BAE and EADS merger, and Broadcast magazine’s Lisa Campbell focuses on media news.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 27 October
Political death heralds end of an era
Argentinean politics was thrown into turmoil yesterday with the death of ex-president Néstor Kirchner, who suffered a fatal double heart attack in hospital in his native Patagonia.
Business / Industry
Push my Button
Everyone from parents to President Putin is attacking the vending and amusement machine industry. As the key players gathered in Europe to launch a counter attack, we were there to see if all their cherries would come up…
Culture / Books
Monocolumn
Thursday 17 December
Rethinking North Korea
Not content with penning the most savage attack on American literature in decades, US academic Brian Myers has produced a book destined to shatter conventional assumptions about the world’s most mysterious nation.
The Monocle Daily, episode 368
Our man in Washington brings us the latest on the US Supreme Court’s gay marriage deliberations, we get a primer on the biggest cyber attack in history, and head to Berlin to see a model who’s out to save independent boo…
Design / Architecture
Rebuilding process
Since Anders Behring Breivik’s atrocious attack in 2011, Utøya has rarely been out of the news. Here, finally, a positive story emerges from the tragedy: meet the Norwegian architectural firm redesigning the island for a…
Affairs / Technology
Portal combat
Warfare in the 21st century is as likely to be fought on computer screens as it is on battlefields. Monocle goes to Estonia to meet the web wizards preventing hackers and ‘cyber-jihadis’ from attacking Nato member states…
The Monocle Daily, episode 7
We talk to our defence correspondent Trefor Moss about arms in North Africa and discover the latest in Kenya following last week’s grenade attacks.
The Monocle Daily, episode 399
We get an update on this week’s hearings regarding the Benghazi attacks, hear the latest from Brazil’s advertising world, and meet a Swedish chef who insists on cooking over an open fire.
The Monocle Daily, episode 252
Why Cuba is relaxing rules on foreign travel, we learn more about the Benghazi attacks on US diplomats, and discuss the UK and Europe’s relationship.
The Globalist, episode 250
We analyse the vice-presidential debate, explore what life is like under economic sanctions in Iran, and hear from Bali on the 10th anniversary of the bomb attacks.