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Street talk

15 September 2011

The Algiers casbah has fallen into dilapidation. But now there are plans to restore its warren of streets. Is this government generosity or a bid to discourage discord in this traditionally revolution-minded neighbourhood…

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Africa/Middle East

17 March 2009

Kenya's drink-driving crackdown, a new island in the Med and a new metro for Algiers, 40 years after its initial conception.

Radio

The Globalist, episode 645

18 April 2014

We're live in Geneva and Donetsk for the latest on the crisis in eastern Ukraine. We also head to Algiers for an election update, review the morning newspapers with Harvey Morris and get the business news from Leo Shanahan…

Radio

The Monocle Arts Review - Music: Luke Turner

26 May 2015

Luke Turner, associate editor at ‘The Quietus’, sits down with Andrew Mueller to discuss three new music releases. Up for discussion are Mbongwana Star’s ‘From Kinshasa’, Holly Herndon’s ‘Platform’ and Algiers’ new self…

Radio

The Globalist, episode 646

21 April 2014

Nataliya Gumenyuk and Robert Fox discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine, Naveena Kottoor reports live from Algiers, FT’s Kiran Stacey explains the UK’s public political forums, and Vincent McAviney reviews the morning’s…

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Diplomacy

19 January 2012

MONOCLE catches up with the US's main in the UAE and takes a peek inside Brazil's Kenyan embassy.

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Africa/Middle East

17 September 2008

A postcard from Mauritania, which has just had its fifth coup since the 1970s; the rise of Lebanon's Green Party and boar-hunting, Algerian style.

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Defence

17 January 2013

Algeria's plans to fence off the Sahara, Poland's new arms contract and other military news.

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The wheels keep turning

13 September 2018

Our senior editor’s journey from Louisiana to Texas takes in gumbo, drive-thru liquor stores, pink pistols and vast stretches of not very much at all. But there is life and soul to be found in the vastness and stories to…

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Business

20 May 2010

Turkey looks to squeeze its rivals and dominate the apricot market, the New York hotel industry gets some overdue good news, and we talk to Italian winemaker Walter Massa about the return of some forgotten grapes.

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Africa/Middle East

21 June 2012

The Middle East's premium advertising rates targeting Ramadan fasters, the new Neighbourhoods market becoming the latest in Johannesburg's city centre gentrification, and Zimbabwe's management of their scrapping of their…

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Defence

17 May 2012

Squabbling over islands in the South China Sea, shopping for warships with Algeria, and boosting the Bangladeshi military.

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Culture

17 April 2008

The latest books, films, art and music.

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Desert bloom

15 May 2015

Located geographically and aesthetically far from famed Emirati excess, the €12bn Masdar City project is trying to plot out a new urban vision. But taking root in the desert has proved difficult: so far just 300 people live…

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Future lab

15 November 2012

Global leaders may be lacking in ambition but that hasn’t stopped us doing the heavy lifting for them. Monocle presents 10 grand projects that would make a big difference.

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Call of the weird

20 August 2020

As this unusual summer turns to autumn it seems that the most striking cultural offerings around reflect the times. From a spooky take on the civil rights-era US to alien hunters, dystopian societies, catastrophe and, yes…