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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...According to the Arab commentator Abū al-Fidā, “In the town of Lucera, all the inhabitants are Muslims from Sicily, and there the Friday sermon is held, the banners of Islam wave, the calls to prayer rings...
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
...“Because the ’70s were, in a lot of ways, a rebirth of the deco period,” says Christiane Lemieux, design historian and founder of Lemieux et Cie....
...In 2020 came a breakthrough: the Barclays sold the Ritz to Abdulhadi Mana al-Hajri, a Qatari businessman, for about £750mn....
...In the liberated 1960s, alongside revivals of Art Nouveau and a vogue for the graphics of Aubrey Beardsley (who illustrated Wilde’s Salome) following a 1966 V&A retrospective, peacocking young men of various...
...Various scores have been tried (Mozart, Rossini, Johann Strauss) but Wheeldon — like Ashton, Nureyev, Matthew Hart, Alexei Ratmansky et al — was seduced by Prokofiev’s bittersweet 1945 masterpiece, splendidly...
...Europe on the Brink of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies, translated by Simon Pare (Profile) More interwoven history — this time from the 1930s, featuring Marlene Dietrich, Vladimir Nabokov and Mann père et...
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...This interview is an edited and condensed version of an on-stage conversation that took place at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington, DC, on May 7 Frederick Studemann, FT literary editor: This session...
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
...Celia’s tyrannical father, Duke Frederick (Tom Edden), refuses to sign and so she is forced to speak aloud to him; she often spots the looming pitfalls as Rosalind flirts with Orlando but cannot warn her...
...Earlier this week, Frederick Kenney, interim co-ordinator for the UN at the JCC, said the organisation was not responsible for checking ship ownership....
...Filings at the UK’s Companies House show that the hotel is now owned by Qatari businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri, who is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani...
...Quinlan sought help from Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, leaving McKillen angry and blindsided....
...In his testaments, emperor Charles V advised his young son — who became Philip II, head of the great Spanish empire in the 16th century — never to identify with only one faction at court or make decisions...
...Ian Fleming and Frederick Forsyth both worked as correspondents for Reuters. Reporters, like novelists, need a fine-tuned ear for the spoken word and the ability to set a scene quickly....
...Trump et al v....
...Fibonnaci dedicated his next book, Liber Quadratorum, to Frederick....
...“And so little by little, they affiliated themselves with Isis [and al-Qaeda].”...
...Frederick Studemann FT literary editor With travel still off the agenda, many of us have to do our exploration closer to home....
...Al-Hajri, the brother-in-law of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, recently acquired the hotel from members of the wealthy Barclay family....
...Completed in 1877, the original was a dining room in a Kensington house, covered in vivid jade and gold chinoiserie murals and commissioned for the home of Frederick Richards Leyland, a shipping magnate,...
...“The prospect of a V-shaped recovery is absolutely zero,” said James Knightley, chief international economist with ING. “Getting 40m jobs returning in the next 12 months?...
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