Thursday 15 July
At first glance, the idea seemed risky at best. After Madrid, Stockholm and Zürich, this year’s EuroPride, Europe’s biggest gay parade, is set to be hosted in Warsaw, Poland’s capital.
A NATO shipping deal looks set to provide some welcome good news in Latvia, how a think tank is shaking up German politics, and France's pioneering stance on transsexuality.
Monday 18 July
Firestorm over a Chinese actress’s homophobic microblog
Wednesday 1 May
This week the US welcomed its first openly gay professional team sports athlete. But will it change attitudes where more games are played – in the playground?
Real-life medical shows aren’t just for light entertainment. In Spain people turn on the TV for health advice in times of austerity and in Egypt women tune in to learn about sex. Monocle meets the TV doctors with all the…
Sunday 4 October
The next few weeks are going to be a defining time for the Church of Sweden.
Thursday 28 March
A Finnish documentary series has drawn some uncomfortable and controversial conclusions regarding Finland's national identity.
Wednesday 24 February
The prospect of India’s first on-screen gay liaison has made foreign media outlets hot under the collar but it is proving to be a different story on the sub-continent.
Monday 10 May
When publicity announced that the film Sex and the City 2 (to be released in the UK and the US later this month) would feature the cast of New York fashionistas frolicking in Abu Dhabi, the news was met in the Middle East…
Tuesday 25 January
Iranian authorities are waging a war on love. Earlier this month their targets were heart-emblazoned materials promoting Valentine’s Day, a holiday increasingly popular among young Iranians who yearn for some of the basic…
Friday 11 March
Young democracies of the Soviet Union are still grappling with the ruinous legacy of four decades of Communist rule.
Thursday 6 May
It doesn’t take much to stir up a controversy in Egypt.
Friday 6 May
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s cultural selection, including exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, saucy short stories from one of Britain’s sharpest writers, and the decade-awaited solo album from Stevie Nicks.
Friday 30 September
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection includes farmhouse cuisine in New York, a pop-up cinema in London, and an engaging design fair in Vienna.
Wednesday 20 January
For generations, India has intrigued foreign and local writers lured by its rich culture, diversity and multitude of stories to be told.
How to speak modern Spanish, and the British colony in the Balkans.
Winds of change strike the gassy cattle of Australia and preaching to the converted in the Cook Islands.
Films, books, music and our culture editor's monthly column.
In a show of girl power, Egyptian women are fighting back against the bottom pinchers and gropers who plague the region: self-defence classes for women are becoming increasingly popular and karate classes especially so.
Strung out across Southeast Asia is a chain of restaurants where doll-like North Korean waitresses sing to diners as they sample the country’s cuisine (well, what’s left of it). Is it a benign culinary business foray or…
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