The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Right Organisation for Pod Academy.
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A radical vision for arts policy should be at the heart of any progressive government argue Professor Rod Stoneman and Adam Stoneman.
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There has been no satisfactory explanation for the plane crash in 1961 in which UN Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld died while on a peace mission to Congo. Was it sabotage or an accident? New leads from the Hammarskjöld Inquiry.
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Lord Leveson’s inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press will report on 29 November. Angela Phillips looks at what motivated the tabloids to get stories by hacking phones and considers the options for reform. …
More The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2015 I interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Right Organisation for Pod Academy. Typically, and at 84 years old, she had stopped off at the Occupy encampment around St Paul’s Cathedral on her way from the airport, before coming on to the conference.
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Special friends, group hugs, someone to talk to – it all sounds idyllic, but Rosalyn George describes how, for girls at primary school, friendship can be more like walking through a minefield.
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