Culture

Ideology Is the Substance of Human Life
Ideology Is the Substance of Human Life
Ideology is usually imagined as something explicit: political programmes, slogans, speeches, elections, Cold War blocs, left and right. We are trained to recognise ideology when it announces itself loudly —... Read more...
The Chronicles of Persepolis: On Iran and Ideology
The Chronicles of Persepolis: On Iran and Ideology
To understand Iran, in cinema, in poetry, in whispered conversations between generations, in the resistance of everyday protests, we should begin not with geopolitics but with storytelling and its expression... Read more...
How the German language is changing to become more gender-inclusive
How the German language is changing to become more gender-inclusive
Language is the basis of communication in every country, and the tool goes simply beyond the word used. German, like many other languages, uses a gender-based system which employs feminine,... Read more...
A tale of two cities, or rather, ten thousand
A tale of two cities, or rather, ten thousand
Cities worldwide are becoming interesting, diverse places to live in based on connections with the world around them. Something as simple as a commute represents much more than we appreciate... Read more...
Why Don’t People Write Letters Anymore?
Why Don’t People Write Letters Anymore?
Receiving a handwritten letter used to be an event. So was writing one. The flair of carefully crafting messages to other people and the intimate effort poured into each stroke... Read more...
How Do you Deal with Racism In a Church?
How Do you Deal with Racism In a Church?
While Christianity preaches that "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28), the lived experiences of... Read more...
A world without Sharnush Parsipur
A world without Sharnush Parsipur
words by Cheryl S. Ezekiel   It's hard to imagine a world without Shahrnush Parsipur — one in which silence replaces defiance and the stories of women yearning for freedom remain untold.... Read more...
Do book prizes still matter in an age of self-publishing?
Do book prizes still matter in an age of self-publishing?
words by Cheryl S. Ezekiel   It only takes a few clicks to publish books nowadays. In an age when TikTok,Instagram algorithms, Amazon, and mobile ads dictate what we read,... Read more...
Ken Saro-Wiwa's courage and price of telling the inconvenient truth
Ken Saro-Wiwa's courage and price of telling the inconvenient truth
words by Cheryl S. Ezekiel   Would you risk your life for the truth? Would you speak and write about the grave aspects that are driven by mankind’s lust for... Read more...