2009AD
Go!
- Trainers who hold the camels in place at the starting gate run out of the way at the Al Sawan Camel Races, Ras al Khaimah, 2010 | Photograph by Jeff Topping
Follow the money
Cover story When Salah Ezzedine’s alleged pyramid scheme collapsed, it left thousands of Lebanese Shia with empty bank accounts – and presented Hizbollah with a crisis of authenticity. Joshua Hersh reports from Beirut.
Eastern promise
Books The West bemoans China’s increasing presence in Africa, writes Howard W French, but Beijing’s engagement with the continent could be more productive and sincere than Europe’s ever was.
It’s a sad, sad world
Books Wesley Yang follows the western psychiatric establishment around the world, watching its representatives sometimes hurt the very people they try to help.
Lost picture show
Art A new history of photography in Egypt, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie writes, overcomes a paucity of records to situate the country at the heart of the medium’s history.
Let’s talk about it
Saloon One evening in Al Quoz, a call for popular participation.
Beyond the curse
Saloon Only after my wedding, Nasir Khan writes, did I become acquainted with Pakistan’s most marginalised community.
Come together
The big idea For the world’s rising powers, Bruce D Jones and Richard Gowan write, co-operation holds more promise than renewed competition.
Most popular stories
- Eastern promise
- Follow the money
- Come together
- Lost picture show
- Haiti, bloodied but unbowed
- It’s a sad, sad world
- Who let the dogs out?
- Terms of infringement: battling intellectual piracy
- Repopulating an antique land: Egypt’s forbidding Western Desert
- Code unknown: the fierce argument over ancient Indian symbols
Books
- The novelist and scriptwriter Neil Cross talks about his new book, Captured, which covers familiarly thrilling territory.
Visual arts
- Mohammed Ali's latest residency combines performance art, graffiti and Arabic calligraphy
Film
Golden opportunity at the Raspberry nominations
- In the midst of the Hollywood awards season, the Razzies offer welcome relief from self-seriousness of all the people handing out statuettes of one sort or another.
Music
- Georgia Lewis deplores a plagiarism suit that pitches two songs from the soul of Australia against each other.
