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Banking on Allah

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens: Islamists claim that a sharia-compliant financial system is safer and morally superior. The truth is more sinister

June 24, 2009

Economy·Features·Islam

Adventures of a Book in Africa

Michela Wrong's exposé of corruption in Kenya was suppressed, then pirated, and finally rescued by an unlikely combination of saviours.

June 24, 2009

Africa·Ethnicity·Features·Literature·Politics

Exile on Jermyn Street

Blacklisted by Hollywood, my father Carl Foreman made a new life in Britain. But he never forsook the country of his birth, says Jonathan Foreman Funerals feel more natural in the winter.

June 23, 2009

Communism·Features·Film·US Politics

Editorial image for "Deep Thought Over Computers" — Is it possible that the next generation of computers will solve chess?'…

‘Is it possible that the next generation of computers will solve chess?’ Among the many amusing literary inventions of the science fiction writer Douglas Adams was a computer called Deep Thought. Fans

June 18, 2009

Chess

Armenian Artist

‘To become world chess champion is to join the immortals. Yet some who have reached the top have been less lionised than others.’

June 11, 2009

Chess

Arms and the Man

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen; War Since 1990 and War: A Short History by Jeremy Black

May 29, 2009

Books·Defence·History·Iraq·Literature·Military·War on Terror

Cycle of Violence

The Last Crusaders: The Hundred-Year Battle for the Centre of the World by Barnaby Rogerson

May 29, 2009

Books·History·Islam·Literature·Middle East

Doctor in the House

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

May 29, 2009

Books·Literature·Mental Illness

Facing the Music

Ronald Harwood's plays tackle the thorny issue of great artists accused of collaborating with the Nazis

May 29, 2009

Germany·History·Theatre

Back to Nature

Three artists approach landscape in very different ways

May 29, 2009

Art

Colombia: A Nation Reborn

Alvaro Uribe has brought prosperity to Colombia, and is now up for "re-re-election". But the legacy of political chaos will continue to be felt, says Vanessa Neumann

May 29, 2009

Developing World·Dispatches·Drugs·Latin America·War on Terror

Beyond the Myth of Mandela

As Jacob Zuma takes over as South Africa’s president, the ‘Beloved Country’ needs to break with idolatry

May 28, 2009

Africa·Developing World·Features·Politics

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