Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has expressed his surprise at being turned away at Zurich Airport. The world-famous ...

As far as most design enthusiasts are concerned, lighting can make or break any room of the house. But while multiple light ...

Nicole Graev Lipson’s sharp, sparkling collection “Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays” triumphs at ...

FO rejects Pakistan-specific terrorism reference in US-India joint statement; Dar due to attend high-level UN summit next week.

Sahra Halgan has been singing for freedom for her whole life, both from the front during the Somali civil war in the 1980s to stages around the world.

Tariq Ali’s loose and digressive book is many things: a history of a left-wing elite and its enemies since the ...

Brazilian architect Roger Zmekhol’s crowning achievement, Pele de Vidro (“Skin of Glass” in Portuguese), opened in Săo Paulo in 1968. The gleaming glass tower was an architectural marvel and became ...

Celebrating the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion, dissidents rebuild a battered civil society with artistry, courage and truth.

By Berge Jololian Ilham Aliyev is a name that should strike fear into the hearts of journalists, opposition figures, and ...

Despite promises to improve the system, problems within prisons keep mounting. Critics say the Dominican Republic continues ...

In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater in Turin, Italy, killing 74 people, many of them teenagers trampled to ...

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, has urged people to continue fighting for a “free, peaceful” Russia a year after he died in prison. “We know ...