Along with Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the best known of the Iranian New Wave directors who came to international prominence in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He is not merely a...
When nonviolent politics has been exhausted, or shut off by governments in situations of profound injustice, is violence or even terrorism sometimes justified? This is the central issue animating...
? = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival ImageryBy Alison G. Stewart, professor of art history, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ashgate, £...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel addressing post-civil-war American Black identity:"I am an invisible man." Entries, including...
The North East Wales Institute of Higher Education has become a university, naming itself after Owain Glyndwr, the Welsh hero who defended his homeland against Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV...
Hicham Yezza, the university clerical worker arrested after a colleague found a copy of an al-Qaeda training manual on his computer, appeared in court this week charged with immigration offences. Mr...
Partners or children of serving Gurkhas and other Commonwealth Service personnel will pay reduced tuition fees at the University of Winchester from September. Dependants of the Nepalese servicemen...
A university lecturer refereed American football's equivalent of the Uefa Cup final in Berlin last week. Jim Briggs juggles lecturing in computing at the University of Portsmouth with his other...
A group of 36 business management degree students from York St John University have helped to raise money for the charities Macmillan Cancer Support and Everyman as part of their final-degree work....
The UK's first higher education qualification in complexity leadership, which aims to challenge traditional management styles by breaking down traditional hierarchies, has been launched by the...
New technologies are helping universities to reach people with no prior experience of higher education, an international conference on learning and development has heard. Speakers at the Fifth Pan-...
"Risky drinking" in the over-55s is the focus of a new study led by Simon Coulton, a professor at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent. While such behaviour in young men and...
A £13.5 million investment that will change the skyline of Derby by 2010 has been confirmed by the University of Derby. The university is to refurbish its Kedleston Road site, including the campus's...
Edwina Hart, the Minister for Health and Social Services in Wales, has attended a ceremony marking a key stage in the expansion of Cardiff University's School of Medicine. The Welsh Assembly...
A London university is linking up with the British University in Dubai to run a new MSc course in the Gulf state. The course in construction law and dispute resolution will begin in Dubai in 2009 in...