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Ather Farouqui’s translation from the original Urdu of Iftikhar Alam Khan’s Sir Syed Daroon-i Khana presents valuable material on the life of the founder of Aligarh Muslim University to a wider reader ...

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Playwright-director Robert Icke drops the “rex” in Sophocles' “Oedipus Rex” because he sets the tragedy in the contemporary world.

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New Zealand’s decision to renew oil and gas exploration could place it in breach of emerging international climate law.

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Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.