The Quran, Islam and egalitarianism
A Sulawesi Quran holds clues to the development of Islamic societies.
The Line: Reimagining communities
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The Tulip Age
We go behind the history of Turkey’s Tulip Age and look at its historiography instead.
Of tulips and turbans
The etymology of the word “tulip.”
The stories our flowers tell
The things that make us feel most at home often come from some place 10,000 miles away.
Trop picks: Tulips
Darwin’s grandad gets lyrical about tulips.
An Englishwoman in Istanbul
About another Lady Mary.
The Line: Free trade in the Chinese era
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Body language
Everywhere in Asia, our hands speak a second language.
Hygiene and the city
The modern metropolis: a heady cocktail of sex, technology and high finance, with an undertone of sewage.
The Line: Are we slave drivers?
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Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors review
An artist for the anthropocene.
An elephant named Indira
Zootopia
Why it is that our kids seem more enthralled by the maps and toys than the live animals at the zoo.
The Wrestler
The Line: Ageing in Asia
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The generic city
History has no place in the Generic City, except as a neatly packaged experience for tourists.
The sex life of bananas
It gets pretty batty.
The hydraulic civilizations of Central Asia
A new political model for an era of resource scarcity.
The Line: Raising excellent sheep
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