Culture / Music
Monocolumn
Friday 11 June
The soft power of Country & Western
It would not instantly occur to many that country music might be a useful component of an American hearts and minds campaign in the Middle East.
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Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 2 August
Polish plane crash – the blame game begins in earnest
Nearly 16 months after the plane crash in western Russia that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński, his wife, eight crew members and 86 political and military officials, a recently published report into the 10 April…
Edits / Transport
Expo 10: Istanbul to Van
Every night the TransAsya Express departs from Istanbul heading for Tehran. It takes three days and two nights to reach its destination, time enough for you to leave the European lifestyle of western Turkey far behind.…
Affairs / Society
Istanbul to Van
Every night the TransAsya Express departs from Istanbul heading for Tehran. It takes three days and two nights to reach its destination, time enough for you to leave the European lifestyle of western Turkey far behind. Saul…
Design / Manufacturing
Welcome home
From fashion through to toys, outsourced production lines are closing down and the spotlight is being placed firmly back on local industries and economies. As well as the individual benefits companies stand to gain from…
Affairs / Society
Narcotecture in Afghanistan
Monocle looks at the building boom in the western Afghan city of Herat, where gaudy palaces are wiping out the face of the medieval city. Much of the construction is being fuelled by money from drugs, guns or graft, alth…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Thursday 20 January
A case of opposites attract for Georgia and Iran
If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Georgian capital Tbilisi this year, he might feel somewhat uncomfortable as his motorcade speeds down the main road from the airport to the city centre – it’s called George W Bush Street…
Business / Economics
Monocolumn
Thursday 10 November
Burma dictates the business agenda
What has been the best-performing Asian economy of 2011?
Edits / Aviation
Monocolumn
Saturday 13 November
How not to run an airline – lessons for eastern Europe
Bosnia is only a short hop across the Adriatic Sea from Italy.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Saturday 21 August
Moving on from Band Aid
Do a Google image search for “Ethiopia” most days and, three or four pictures in, you’re faced with the image that, if you’re honest, you probably associate most with the place: skeletal child, starving to death, swarmed…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 27 January
Burma’s parliament holds the key for new investment
When Burma’s new parliament first opened just one year ago, it was roundly dismissed as a front which the country’s authoritarian rulers would use to rubber-stamp their decisions.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 7 October
Doing away with democracy
Rumours are sweeping Kazakhstan that President Nursultan Nazarbayev is gearing up to make himself President for Life.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 16 May
An historic Kyrgyz vote
After last month’s riots in Kyrgyzstan, the new provisional government is doing its best to regain control over the whole of the country.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 10 January
Too little, too late
It is difficult to imagine that the news out of Somalia could get any worse after a disastrous few years that have seen a spike in kidnappings and piracy, and the rise of al-Shabab, a hardline Islamic group that meted out…
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Thursday 10 June
Shaking off the Borat legacy
Kazakhstan is far from most people’s geopolitical radars, and outside oil and gas circles is still known mainly for the fictional journalist, Borat.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 28 April
The smoking ban
The hookahs have been packed away and cigarettes stubbed out. Damascus, like Paris and New York, now has a smoking ban.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 13 July
Israel contemplates working week culture shift
The story goes that it was initially an American president who suggested that Israelis shift to a five-day working week.
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Wednesday 26 May
Controversy in cowboy country
On the face of it, it is just an auction of 35 horses in a small Western town.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Thursday 11 February
African leaders’ empty slogans
Three years into Tony Blair’s first term as British prime minister, his Labour party unveiled a slogan that they hoped would encapsulate the work they had done already and the magnitude of the challenges ahead.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Tuesday 12 October
The Iranian president’s contentious visit
You might wonder whether a visit from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who arrives in Beirut today, is really what Lebanon needs right now.