13 September 2011
A war of words has broken out in Kashmir.
A war of words has broken out in Kashmir. This year the disputed border region, long claimed by both India and Pakistan, enjoyed a relatively peaceful summer, until the announcement that a literature festival was to be…
28 February 2011
Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak once famously described Israel as “a villa in the jungle”
Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak once famously described Israel as “a villa in the jungle” – a haven of democracy amid a swathe of dictatorial Middle East regimes. But as one revolution after another sweeps through the…
6 June 2010
Turf wars are hardly a rarity in Israel.
Turf wars are hardly a rarity in Israel. But a new beef brewing in Tel Aviv is pitting Jew against Jew in the battle for the city’s secular soul. The conflict began two years ago when Chabad – a Brooklyn-based ultra-ort…
21 November 2014
We hear how designers and chefs have got together to rethink Turkish cooking, visit Conflict Kitchen in Pittsburgh and find out about Dubai's ambition to become the centre of the world’s coffee industry.
18 July 2013
How We Reconcile: we visit post-conflict cities (and one New England suburb) where interventions in our built environments have been major parts of bringing two opposing sides together.
7 April 2011
Serbian pilots are “dive bombing” Libyan protesters and Serbian mercenaries are being paid tens of thousands of dollars to fight for Gaddafi. You have to have to pity the poor Serbs here.
Serbian pilots are “dive bombing” Libyan protesters and Serbian mercenaries are being paid tens of thousands of dollars to fight for Gaddafi. You have to have to pity the poor Serbs here. In the modern world, the equivalent…
28 May 2010
“I don’t see the possibility of serious developments in the market,” Seoul’s top financial regulator, Kim Jong-chang, told reporters when asked if growing tensions following the sinking of a South Korean warship would…
“I don’t see the possibility of serious developments in the market,” Seoul’s top financial regulator, Kim Jong-chang, told reporters when asked if growing tensions following the sinking of a South Korean warship would…
20 September 2012
“There are only two or three human stories,” said Carl Linstrum in Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers!, “and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that…
“There are only two or three human stories,” said Carl Linstrum in Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers!, “and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that…
29 August 2013
With the West once again poised to wade into a conflict in Syria, Monocle’s foreign editor looks back into history to see how to go about it.
With the possibility of a western military intervention in Syria increasing by the day, every foreign affairs expert worth their salt is chiming in with a lesson from history.
26 January 2012
Five years ago, stood in the concrete shell of a building in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, I made a deal.
Five years ago, stood in the concrete shell of a building in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, I made a deal. When the war ended, once it was safe for people – both Somalis and foreigners – to walk around Mogadishu without the…
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