“The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists,” says Gilles Kepel in his…
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The Cordelia Dream
Wilton’s Music Hall 11 Dec – 10 Jan 2009 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s felicitous selection of Wilton’s Music Hall in…
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The Richmond Theatre 30 April – 5 May 2007 Following Aida’s premier in Cairo in December 1871, Verdi wrote, “This…
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Review of Killing Mr Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri And Its Impact On The Middle East by Nicholas Blandford…
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As a young American infantry officer in London awaiting his D-Day orders, Gardner Botsford met an English couple – a…
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When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me.…
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Trafalgar Studios, London, 28 Sept – 10 Dec 2005 The day that Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature…
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Review of From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and…
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The Bush administration’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are proving to be as good to the theatre as they have…
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Reviews of: A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe Cambridge, 333 pp, £15.99 The Gun…
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