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Archive for February, 2011
Here comes the bride, her lit-up dress is wide
By Emma Kelly /Monday, February 21st, 2011My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
Channel 4
After Steve Bell by Hack
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, February 21st, 2011Cartoon by Matt Buck. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
Mix and match – why multiculturalism works
By Imran Ahmed /Monday, February 21st, 2011Imran Ahmed says David Cameron’s recent speech in Germany was disingenuous, dangerous and plain wrong
Claire French
By Claire French /Monday, February 21st, 2011Democracy is good for Egypt – and everywhere
John Coulter
By John Coulter /Sunday, February 20th, 2011All to play for, north and south of the border
Can democracy take root in Egypt’s shifting sands?
By Stefan Simanowitz /Sunday, February 20th, 2011After the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Stefan Simanowitz assesses how the West may respond to the growing unrest in the Middle East
Lyrical and dramatic, wordless and fantastic
By Robert Giddings /Sunday, February 20th, 2011Donizetti – Maria Stuarda: Sonia Ganassi/Fiorenza Cedolins/Teatro la Fenice di Venizia/Fabrizia Carminati
Cmajor DVD
Wagner – The Ring Without Words, A Symphonic Synthesis by Lorin Maazel: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Lorin Maazel
EuroArts DVD
Brahms – Symphonies 2 in D and 3 in F: Bavarian Radio Orchestra/Mariss Jansons
BR Klassik Surround CD
The brutal choice offered many Jews in Muslim countries was mass conversion – or massacre
By David Harounoff /Sunday, February 20th, 2011In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands by Martin Gilbert
Yale University Press, £25
Pull down thy vanity Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail
By Keith Richmond /Saturday, February 19th, 2011Selected Poems and Translations of Ezra Pound edited by Richard Sieburth
Faber & Faber, £16.99
Ezra Pound To His Parents: Letters 1895-1929 edited by Mary de Rachewiltz, A David Moody and Joanna Moody
Oxford University Press, £35