To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Subversive in her life, political in her writings
Adele Newson-Horst pays tribute to the great Egyptian writer NAWAL EL SAADAWI
UNCOMPROMISING: Nawal El Saadawi
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
NOVELIST, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on March 21 at the age of 89.
The author of more than 50 books, she once told me in one of our many interviews that she self-identified as “an African from Egypt, not from the Middle East … I am not from the Third World. There is one world, that is a racist, capitalist economic world.
“I became a feminist when I was a child — when I started to ask questions to become aware that women are oppressed and feel discrimination.”
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