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UN Lives CEO Katja Iversen Talks About the Power of Popular Culture and Sounds Right — Global Issues
UN Live’s CEO Katja Iversen at the launch of ‘Sounds Right’. Credit: Naureen Hossain/IPS by Naureen Hossain (new york) Monday, April…
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Women in AI: Ewa Luger explores how AI affects culture — and vice versa
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching…
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UK returns looted Ghana artefacts on loan after 150 years | Arts and Culture News
The objects were stolen from the court of the Asante king during the 19th century Anglo-Asante wars. The United Kingdom…
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60 Best Podcasts (2024): True Crime, Culture, Science, Fiction
Podcasts are to radio as streaming services are to television, and we are lucky enough to be living through the…
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Saving Sarah: The last Jewish embroidery shop in India’s Kochi | Arts and Culture
Kochi, India – A chance encounter when he was selling postcards to tourists in Jew Town as a 13-year-old in…
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Fastest waiters in Paris compete in ‘coffee run’ street race | Arts and Culture
Paris, France – One of Paris’s most fashionable districts was flooded with white-shirted waiters balancing trays of coffee and croissants…
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Thailand’s flourishing cannabis culture under threat as gov’t seeks ban | In Pictures
Thodsapol Hongtong is enjoying a smoke with his friends at the Green Party, a venue where recreational cannabis enthusiasts meet…
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German memory culture, anti-Semitic Zionists and Palestinian liberation | Racism
I am a Jewish pro-Palestine solidarity activist originally from the New York area and now based in Berlin. My grandmother…
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Dahomey doc on Europe’s looted African art wins Berlin film festival | Arts and Culture News
Dahomey, a documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing the thorny issues surrounding Europe’s return of looted antiquities to Africa,…
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How Kagiso Lediga became the most sought-after filmmaker in South Africa | Arts and Culture
As a teenager in drama school in Cape Town in the 1990s, Kagiso Lediga was bored by the heavy focus…
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