With the stated aim of last week's UN resolution limited to the cessation of violence against the Libyan people – and an ongoing row over whether targeting Colonel Gaddafi would be legal – the Western ...

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Earlier this year, Iraq’s parliament approved a new power-sharing government led by Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi. The move toward political inclusion was encouraging, especially as Iraqi forces ...

"The Eastern question" : the occupation of Tunisia and Egypt, 1881-1882. France and imperialism -- Tunisia -- Great Britain and imperialism -- Egypt -- The Sudan and the Nile -- The Congo and the ...

Vic Sarin, the director of this film about the love between a Sikh (Jimi Mistry) and a Muslim (Kristin Kreuk) during the bloodbath that followed the Partition of 1947, is a veteran cinematographer. So ...

Joginder Singh Sethi, a spry nonagenarian from Juhu has a confession to make."I am not a social person.I never attend lunches or dinners and I stay away friends. Joginder Singh Sethi, a spry ...

The public, or "political," poems of W. H. Auden, which stretch from his beautiful elegy for Spain and his imperishable reflections on September 1939 and conclude with a magnificent eight-line snarl ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Partition Museum in Amritsar before proceeding to meet chief minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, wife Sophie Grégoire ...

Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...

It’s been 70 years since India and Pakistan were carved from the former British Empire as independent nations, a process that triggered one of the largest human migrations in history. Overnight, Hindu ...