Reflecting on The Paper as a very serious play at theatre; the political as a theatrical serious playing at paper, and 1001 stories to tell, in pictures. Scheherazade Cartoons and Comics As bombs still rain down on Libya, with cockpit-cam night video peep-show footage of tanks being destroyed to preserve the No-Fly Zone on our […]
Libya
Editorial Edition Two
To call to account, account for something, be of account. ‘To count’ can mean to tally or calculate but also to matter, esteem or to have importance. It is in the interstices of these literal and idiomatic meanings of measure that this issue of The Paper precariously sits. Measure is all around us. Our phone […]
Libya’s Lost Promise
The announcement of new US sanctions repeats a tragic scenario all too familiar, the second time as farce Muammar Al-Qaddafi’s Libya When Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi overthrew King Idris in 1969, Libyans heaved a sigh of relief. Idris had sucked the oil profits of this oil-rich country for his own betterment. Little went to a population […]