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Il n’a plus de fonction politique mais il reste une des personnalités préférées des Français. Depuis sa vigie de l’Institut du monde arabe, qu’il préside aujourd’hui, après avoir beaucoup fait pour...
Every jot and tittle of the Hawke/Keating years is pored over in this 90-minute show, to the delight of politics tragics.
Former US senator and Secretary of State John Kerry, was honoured with the International Award of Philhellenism ‘Lord Byron’, at the Academy of Athens on Wednesday. The Lord Byron International Prize was also awarded to former French minister Jack Lang and Swiss banker Charles Pictet. The Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism awards the prize every year to three important international figures who have either contributed a great deal to Greece or to society as a whole, inspired by the values of Hellenism. The three winners received a silver medal, a diploma and a US$10,000 grant donat...
Nathalie Bondil Photo: Robert Skinner Nathalie Bondil, the former director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) who was forced out last summer after a row with the board chair, has now been appointed as the head of the museums and exhibitions division at the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) in Paris. Run by France and 23 Arab states, the IMA opened in 1987 on the left bank of the Seine in a building designed by Jean Nouvel. The French curator was selected to fulfill a three-year mandate there by a jury chaired by Yannick Lintz, the head of the Islamic departmen...
Michel Foucault, French philosopher and historian, is seen smiling in this picture of November 5, 1979 [File: Getty Images] “Tunisia, for me, represented in some ways the chance to reinsert myself in the political debate. It wasn’t May of ’68 in France that changed me; it was March of ’68, in a third-world country.” This is how Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, described his time in Tunisia, a country that welcomed him and offered him his first academic teaching position at the University of Tunis. Foucault, the public figure and famous theorist of power and sexuality, was inde...