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New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, July 10, 2011 16:59 - 9 Comments
Politics When Innocence is Not Enough: Talha Ahsan and the Rise of the (In)Security State
For the past half decade, Talha Ahsan, a bright young Muslim poet with Asperger's has been held in a maximum security prison, to be extradited to the US for offences that have never been clarified or proven. Author Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed charts Talha's tragic, ongoing plight and places it in the wider context of a rising (in)security state.
New in Ceasefire, Palestine is Still the Issue - Saturday, July 9, 2011 17:59 - 1 Comment
Palestine is Still the Issue The Freedom Flotilla, Raed Salah, and Israel’s myth of invincibility
Despite Israel's posing as the region's strongman, its attempts to crush simple acts of Palestinian civil resistance and international solidarity demonstrate how weak and morally bankrupt it really is, argues Asa Winstanley.
Classical & Opera, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, July 7, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Opera Cendrillon (ROH)
In his latest review, Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, gives his verdict on a production of Cendrillon at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 7:56 - 0 Comments
Beautiful Transgressions Popular education as a living project
In her new column, Sara Motta explores the remarkable work of La Máscara Theatre company – the only feminist theatre group in Colombia, and reflects on how its methods can be used in popular education for the building of global movements of resistance.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, July 4, 2011 9:00 - 1 Comment
Essay Creating the Future: Palimpsest
Yesterday's truth becomes today's falsehood. In the third part of his 'Creating the Future' series, Paul Schloss looks at how past political victories come to lose their meaning. He suggests a radical solution.
Classical & Opera, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 3, 2011 17:24 - 0 Comments
Opera Le nozze di Figaro, (Opera Holland Park)
In his latest review, Ceasefire's opera critic, Paul Guest, gives his verdict on a production of Mozart's 'Le nozze de Figaro' at Opera Holland Park.
Arts & Culture, Deserter's Songs, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, July 2, 2011 9:00 - 0 Comments
Deserter’s Songs I Hear That Train A-Comin’
"There's a long history of trains in popular music. They've represented freedom, inspired dances, carried loved ones away and heralded utopian futures." Dave Bell offers a selection of the different ways in which the sounds of trains have been used in music and considers what this might be able to tell us about the way we engage with sound and each other.
Books, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:00 - 1 Comment
Books ‘The Golden Cage’ by Shirin Ebadi
Ceasefire's Frederick Andrews reviews The Golden Cage, an intriguing semi-fictional collation of personal memories, encounters and stories by the Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.
New in Ceasefire, Paul Guest's Musical Notes - Wednesday, June 29, 2011 20:09 - 1 Comment
The “Opera vs Youth” myth
James Rhodes’ latest blog on the Telegraph website entitled ‘Classical concerts are too sacred for their own good. Only the Proms always gets it right’, whilst arguably provocative, is certainly thought-provoking. When I started critiquing classical music and opera I had exactly the same views as Rhodes; however, being a music journalist and spending lots […]Arts & Culture, Features, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:00 - 2 Comments
Chess Corner Return of the Romantic
Ceasefire's Chess columnist, Paul Lam, pays tribute to the game's ‘Romantic’ age, with its Bohemian outlook and lifestyle and the spectacular chess that it produced.
