In the first of a series of blogs-on-the-road, insatiable traveller Jason Smith describes his encounters with police in Europe, from the scary to the downright cheeky.
In his latest column, Kateb Salim, surveying the latest developments in Libya, embarks on an impassioned attack on the widespread tendency of Arab governments, and populations, to use external threats as pretexts for decades-long political repression and economic stagnation.
The 'I, Culture' orchestra, a nascent collective of musicians from Europe’s eastern neighbourhood, has this week embarked on its first European tour. Ceasefire's classical and opera critic, Paul Guest, speaks to its artistic director Pavel Kotla, about the political and artistic vision of the project.