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...acts of jihadist terrorism. Furthermore, Islamic extremism is not only a European issue. It also exists in Malaysia, Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya and Indonesia - countries that have had nothing to do with the war in Iraq, which Time says is the galvanizing issue of Muslim radicalization in Europe. Andrew Onoro Birmingham, England I am a U.S. citizen who has resided in Spain for more than 30 years. I retain my American values, but I have totally immersed myself in Spanish society and thoroughly enjoy living here. I have seen others - French, German, British, Romanian - doing the same. But I have...
...exhilarated by her first trip to Mosul. She had visited Baghdad twice before, and flew there again after her Mosul stop. But she told reporters aboard her plane she much preferred talking to local pols and hands-on activists from small communities. "It's like the difference between visiting Birmingham and Washington," she said. The Birmingham native didn't leave much doubt about which city she preferred...
...that Santa Claus will be sliding down your chimney on Christmas Eve, skip Jeremy Seal's historical travelogue Santa: A Life. Not that Seal is a killjoy. After all, for a start the British writer indulgently ferries his wonderstruck daughters to Santa's Kingdom, a vast, tawdry grotto in Birmingham, England, and then, a year later, all the way to Lapland. In between, though, Seal comes to admire Santa's prototype, as he tracks the shape-shifting Byzantine bishop St. Nicholas across 17 centuries of Christendom. Born in Christian Myra (now Demre) in southern Turkey in 280 A.D., Nick...
...that Santa Claus will be sliding down your chimney on Christmas Eve, skip Jeremy Seal's historical travelogue Santa: A Life. Not that Seal is a killjoy. After all, for a start the British writer indulgently ferries his wonderstruck daughters to Santa's Kingdom, a vast, tawdry grotto in Birmingham, England, and then, a year later, all the way to Lapland. In between, though, Seal comes to admire Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist...
...hundreds [of these images]," she says. "It both reveals Victorian art as not as white as we imagine, but also Victorian society as not as white as we imagine." The fruits of Marsh's research are on display at Manchester Art Gallery until Jan. 8, and then at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Jan. 28-April 2). As well as paintings, there are cartoons, ads and photographs of characters like Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a captive from Dahomey who became the Queen's godchild. Many of the images were designed to serve a purpose: to moralize, to glorify the empire...