STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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Groundbreaking: A Museum in Baghdad in rehearsal
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RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
ON THE first day of rehearsals for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of A Museum in Baghdad, writer Hannah Khalil looked around the studio at the big cast.
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All but two were, like herself, of Arab descent.
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