Share Related Topics By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month. Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being held for a week in detention,…

History is usually written by the privileged and what the world needs is a more solid theoretical foundation in “history from below” or “history of people” that enables a systematic analysis of various sociocultural products from the perspectives of the oppressed. Modern interpretations of cultural artefacts may at the outset look progressive. However, they often…

The BBC audio series ‘Three Million’ presents the famine as living history rather than a distant episode. Bengal Famine of 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Support Us HISTORYMEDIAWORLD26/FEB/2024 The Bengal countryside is “the biggest archive in the world”, comments a contributor to a new BBC audio series, ‘Three Million‘. The wartime famine which claimed so many…

COMBATE Five days after Morrison died, Vietnamese revolutionary poet Tố Hữu wrote a poem assuming the voice of Morrison: “… You gang of devils! In whose name Do you send B-52s, Napalm, and poison gases From the White House, From Guam Island, To Viet Nam? To murder peace and national freedom, To burn down hospitals…

BY MARIA POPOVA “Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf’s melodious voice unspools in the only surviving recording of her speech — a 1937 love letter to language. “In each word, all words,” the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot writes a generation later as he considers the dual power of language to conceal and to reveal. But because language…