Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani CAIRO, Oct 29 (IPS) – Egypt has long been recognised as the cultural trendsetter of the Arabic- speaking world. Despite recent challenges to this role with the advent of satellite television, experts say that contemporary Arab culture remains largely defined by Egyptian [...]
MUSIC: Afro-Brazilians Priced Out of Back2Black Concert
September 18, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 18 (IPS) – On stage, singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil highlighted Brazil’s ”genetic and cultural” connection to ”Mother Africa,” to applause from a predominantly light-skinned audience at a concert that black people generally could not afford – symbolic of the country’s ”veiled racism” at an [...]
RUSSIA: The Language of Influence Weakens
September 16, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW, Sep 16 (IPS) – Nearly all of the former Soviet republics have adopted native languages that were suppressed during the communist era at the expense of Russian. This is affecting Russia’s influence over the commonwealth of independent states. For more than seven decades, the [...]
BRAZIL: Art is the Best Education
September 14, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Mario Osava * RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 14 (IPS) – A broad range of projects in Brazil are using ballet and folk dances, classical and popular music, theatre, circus arts, capoeira – an Afro-Brazilian combination of dance and martial arts – fashion, visual arts and the audiovisual [...]
BRAZIL: Italian Immigrants Helped Forge Local Identity in the South
August 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Valerie Dee BENTO GONÇALVES, Brazil, Aug 17 (IPS) – In 1875 a handful of families from the Veneto region of northern Italy, fleeing hardship and hunger, took ship for the Empire of Brazil. Disembarking in Porto Alegre in the southeast, they hacked their way for over 100 kilometres through [...]
