Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Antoaneta Becker LONDON, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) – Chinese fengshui masters have been busy advising edgy followers how to optimise their luck in the auspicious but volatile Year of the Dragon, which according to the lunar calendar begins on Jan.23. In the West though, Chinese superstitions about [...]
INDIA: Kashmir in Search of Lost Culture
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Athar Parvaiz SRINAGAR, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – While the conflict in Indian Kashmir and the destruction it has caused often makes the news, its impact on culture has hardly gotten any attention. Although the armed conflict is on the ebb, cultural events have yet to stage [...]
OP-ED: Iran’s Greatest Spiritual Leader
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Melody Moezzi* ATLANTA, Georgia, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – Iran’s officially recognised "spiritual leader" today may be Ayatollah Khamenei, but for hundreds of years before the current establishment of mullahs and ayatollahs, Iranians of all creeds have looked to another spiritual leader: Jalal ad- Din Rumi. While [...]
CUBA: Today’s Youth, As Diverse As the Times
April 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Dalia Acosta HAVANA, Apr 13, 2011 (IPS) – Mariana García is a child of the 1990s, when Cuba was in the grip of the severe crisis that hit the island after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the East European socialist bloc. She grew up bombarded [...]
OP-ED: Solid Present, Bright Future for Latin America’s Film Industry
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Roberto Perez AMSTERDAM, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – Since the 1980s, despite chronic social crisis, Latin America has seen significant advances in economic and industrial development, which have given a boost to the region’s film industry. But the industry is still in the process of getting established, [...]
Films Shrink Global Problems Down to a More Human Scale
April 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Whitman UNITED NATIONS, Apr 11, 2011 (IPS) – "It’s bad to be rich at the height of fame with your morals a dirty shame," says Valter pointedly as he bumps along in the back of a pickup towards Jardim Gramacho, the largest landfill in the world, [...]
Theatre For Development and Peace
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – Some African playwrights say they want to use drama to promote development and peace, and they appealed to world leaders to listen on World Theatre Day, celebrated Wednesday. "While nations spend colossal sums of money on peace-keeping missions [...]
‘God Bless Montevideo’ Inspires Serbs
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Mar 22, 2011 (IPS) – Only months ago, most of the Serbs would probably not know that Montevideo is the capital of Uruguay, as there is hardly anything that connects the two nations. But now, for more than half a million of them, [...]
Iconoclastic Young Filmmakers Look at Real Issues in Cuba
March 3, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ivet González HAVANA, Mar 3, 2011 (IPS) – Lighting up dark areas of Cuban society with youthful vigour, Muestra Joven (the Young Cinema Exhibition), a local independent film event, reached its 10th anniversary characterised by experimentation and subjects that are both complex and invisible in the national [...]
CUBA: Varadero’s Architectural Charm Threatened by Tourism
March 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Dalia Acosta HAVANA, Mar 2, 2011 (IPS) – Important architectural works from the Modern movement in Cuba appear to be doomed as a result of the expansion of massive hotel complexes, which threaten to take over the landscape in Varadero, this country’s most famous beach resort. The [...]
