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Robert Barry selects some of his favourite titles from the catalogue of the adventurous German music book publisher

Robert Barry selects some of his favourite titles from the catalogue of the adventurous German music book publisher

Murat Kurnaz, a Bremen-born Muslim living in Germany with a Turkish passport, spent five years in Guantánamo. After reading his recently published book, Julia Gerlach sums up that it is not Kurnaz that is a security risk – but the story he has chronicled

The book "Poems from Guantanamo" is a phenomenon: out of thousands of poems written by the detainees, 22 made it past the US censors. Now it's clear that the Islamists have also arrived on the Modernist poetry scene. By Stefan Weidner

Murat Kurnaz, a Bremen-born Muslim living in Germany with a Turkish passport, spent five years in Guantánamo. After reading his recently published book, Julia Gerlach sums up that it is not Kurnaz that is a security risk – but the story he has chronicled

Berlin, city of music, goes online Oxford plans to change curriculum  The University of Oxford has recognized the lack of diversity in its curriculum. Recently, Britains The Sunday Telegraph wrote that editors had seen proposals for changes to undergraduate courses at the elite university to include "more diverse" forms of music in its curriculum. Professors and students had criticized that there were too many works by "white European composers" from the time of slavery, including music by ...