Design / Fashion
Ticket to Tangier
Tangier, a crossroad of cultures and long a draw for artists and writers in search of a dose of naughtiness, is the setting for our North African sojourn in linen and cotton jackets and hard-working loafers.
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Affairs / Government
After the storm
The wave of revolutions shaking up the world started in Tunisia. What happens after you’ve dislodged your dictator? Also for our series on the Arab spring, see how Malta is coping as Libya collapses (page 30) and how Turkey…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 4 March
Maghreb focus: Time to pull together
One of the sparks for the political unrest that has erupted across North Africa was frustration over the lack of jobs and the rising price of food
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 6 February
Canada’s unwanted house guest
All eyes may be on the Egyptian chapter of North Africa’s uprisings but in Canada much of the focus remains on Tunisia’s fallen regime.
The Curator, episode 9
Amy Guttman chooses to see what lies ahead for North Africa in 2012 and also heads over to Anchorage to meet a moose.
The Globalist, episode 43
A review of 2011 in north Africa, the business in New York and a discussion on the father of Art Nouveau, Victor Horta.
Affairs / Government
Island ethos
Monocle meets the Maltese prime minister to talk about how his small country is dealing with the influx of immigrants from North Africa, his views on the Libya conflict and his vision for transforming Malta into a modern…
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.
Business / Emerging Markets
Friends in the north
Occupying a strategic post at the tip of North Africa, the Mediterranean capital of Tunisia is a short hop from Sicily. Less well known than its rival Morocco, Tunis is now benefiting from foreign business and finally…
Midori House, episode 333
Why the first suicide attack in Mali has dampened the sense of a French victory in north Africa, Dr Curtis Cooper explains how he found the largest known prime number and Justin Packshaw joins us to reveal his latest fun…
The Monocle Daily, episode 353
Dr Barry Cannon explains the allure of Latin-American political rebels in the West, Monocle’s correspondent in Bamako discusses North Africa’s two most notorious Al-Qaeda leaders, and we ask the author of “Democracy in…
Culture / Society
Good Migrations
For most of the last century, Italy’s population flowed outwards. But as the country grew richer, the outside began to trickle in, from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Asia. Today, the country’s roughly three million…
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.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 10 March
A Ugandan protest and an unworried president
Uganda’s elite red beret troops weren’t taking any chances.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 2 April
Life after being an African president
When Kenneth Kaunda stepped down as president of Zambia in 1991 he did something no other African head of state had ever done before.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 8 July
The blot on the West
At some stage in the future there will be major political scandal about the West’s long-term funding and arming of a dictatorial regime that embezzles aid and oil money and kills its own people.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 19 February
Crunch time for Nigeria’s next election
Democratic elections in Africa’s most populous nation would be problematic even without the violence and alleged fraud that has marred Nigeria’s previous polls.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Saturday 29 January
Will Russia be able to protect the world’s sports stars?
As mourning turns into recrimination following Monday’s attack on Domodedovo Airport, fears will inevitably be voiced internationally questioning Russia’s abilities to safely host two major world events it has planned for…
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 27 February
Maghreb focus: Italy’s interests in Libya
Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody crackdown against protesters challenging his 42-year rule has received sharp rebuke from world leaders.