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Subaltern voices * Subaltern voices Private view with discussion Thursday 7/10/2010, 18:00 Exhibition open daily 16:00 – 20:00, 8/10/2010 – 14/10/2010 Isabel Lima, installation/performance, 2010 sub·al·tern - Lower in rank, subordinate or second class ... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • The politics of genocide: Rwanda & DR Congo, Martin Shaw Political wars around the history of genocide are most evident in controversies over the Holocaust (see "The Holocaust, genocide studies, and politics", 18 August 2010). But they are also sharpening around Rwanda, where in 1994 the “Hutu Power”... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Iran: surface truths, inner lives, R Tousi It’s what passes for an Iranian society wedding these days. The bride is beautiful in an Italian handmade gown; the groom as sleek as a member of the “rat pack” in a vintage suit that his father had worked in in the 1960s. There are smartly... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Britain’s security future, Paul Rogers The coalition government of centre-right Conservatives and more centre-left Liberal Democrats that emerged from Britain’s general election on 6 May 2010 soon pledged itself both to severe cuts in public expenditure and a major review of the... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • The white and pleasant land, Delwar Hussain A combination of tight financial conditions and hot summer weather led many people in Britain to holiday closer to home this year. The new prime minister David Cameron encouraged such a choice, and himself practised it by taking his family to... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Tricky business in Abkhazia, Anton Katin At the end of the summer student archaeologists brought home some unique artefacts from friendly Abkhazia: a very rare object dating from the 2nd century AD. Everyone was delighted. Before that the Russian president Dmitri Medvedev had paid a... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles Turkey’s referendum: a democratic dynamic, Gunes Murat Tezcur China and Tony Blair: the wealth circuit, Kerry Brown Sudan: prospect and lesson, Richard Cockett Kashmir rocked by intensification of violence, Rukeyya Khan