ROME– In a rare Middle East success story, the Kurdish Regional Government today carries more diplomatic weight than many members of the UN, its High Representative to Italy, Rezan Kader, says.
DR ROBERTO SAVIO
SAN SALVADOR, Bahamas -It is now accepted that the North-South divide created at the end of the colonial era and the coalition of New Countries against the North ended with globalisation.
There are now areas of the Third World inside the North, and areas of the North inside the South. The world is no longer bipolar, with the two big powers
creating the other divide, the East-West divide. We now inhabit a multilateral world, where a plethora of acronyms (such as BRICS, G20 and TTP) show how it is now fragmented into multiple layers.
19 Feb 2014
Olga Majewska
ROME–English Theatre of Rome revives Ibsen’s captivating 19thcentury masterpiece Hedda Gabler in a fast-paced, strikingly modern version directed by Daniel Connelly.
The packed audience at the opening night Sunday in the Teatro Arciliuto gave a warm reception to Brian Friel’s adaptation of the Norwegian maestro’s dark tragedy interpreted by Dr Connelly, an assistant professor at The American University of Rome and John Cabot University.
17 Feb 2014
LAUREN MOUAT
ROME—Kathryn Andrews and Alex Israel are united for the first time at the Gagosian Gallery in an exhibit that is one part homage to Hollywood culture and one part commentary on SoCal extravagance. The free exhibit will run for another month until March 15.
The two Los Angeles-based artists play with the intimate gallery space as much as with the pieces that fill it. The first room contains a red carpet rolled up on its end that gives the impression you have either just missed the big event or have arrived unfashionably early.
16 Feb 2014
asia guerreschi
ROME -“Our mission is to build leaders at the international level,” says Franco Pavoncello, President of John Cabot University, “We believe in freedom of spirit and exploration for our students. Our inspiration comes from creating free minds.”
12 Feb 2014
ERIC VANDEVILLE
FLORENCE-Since the Middle Ages, districts of Tuscany's capital battle mercilessly for the honour of winning the tournament of Calcio Storico Fiorentino, an extraordinarily violent sport played by men trained to fight each other to their limits.
12 Feb 2014
BAR FLY
ROME -- The Eternal City is best discovered without a map on foot, with an adventurous spirit open to appreciating the lazy, lumbering cornucopia that somehow comes together effortlessly here.
11 Feb 2014
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME—As Mario Lubetkin took over FAO’s spin operation, ex IPS colleagues poured scorn on the "hyped" biography the UN agency issued to justify the dlrs 25,000 a month hire of the unctuous Uruguayan scribe.
9 Feb 2014
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME – As Mario Lubetkin took over as FAO communications supremo, IPS association members accuse him of leaving the news agency and its tv project “in ruins.”
“Lubetkin is a case study in conflict of interest,” a "group of IPS association members" said in a statement to Italian insider as Senor Lubetkin this week moved into his new office as dlrs 25,000 a month head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s beleaguered Communications Division.
3 Feb 2014