Cassio
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Cassio
Members of a pan-Arab political party had just seized power in Syria, and would do so a few years later in Iraq. It had the same name in both countries: the Baath.
Though officially brothers in Baathism, the Iraqi and Syrian regimes were actually very different and frequently at odds. Iraq was a majority-Shia country ruled by Sunnis; Syria a majorit... See more
Though officially brothers in Baathism, the Iraqi and Syrian regimes were actually very different and frequently at odds. Iraq was a majority-Shia country ruled by Sunnis; Syria a majorit... See more
Why Indonesian batik continues to fascinate
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Interesting to improve writing
Tales by Light. It’s about photography
Non-horror films that should have been horror films
this slipperiness was an asset rather than a liability.
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
His first long novel, 1996’s Chapaev and Void (published in the US as Buddha’s Little Finger and in the UK as The Clay Machine-Gun) has been called the first post-Soviet Russian literary bestseller.