The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if intellectual creativity is largely confined to Western intellectual circles. It is premature to suggest that the Academy has finally decided to break away from its ethnocentric […]
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Empty gestures or substantive change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and its discontents
Iran’s Zarif: Good, substantive talks with Russia, China on nuclear deal
Azer News– Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has tweeted that he had good and substantive meetings with counterparts in Beijing and Moscow over the future of the nuclear deal, reached in 2015 between Tehran and the six world powers. “[We] will soon determine how P4+1 can guarantee Iran’s benefits under the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive […]
Russia says it received only one substantive answer from OPCW over Skripal case
“Last night, the OPCW Technical Secretariat handed them [answers] over to the [Russian] permanent representatives [to the OPCW], we are examining them,” the diplomatic mission confirmed on Wednesday, adding that the watchdog provided Russia with only “one substantive answer” about the case. On April 1, Russia sent a list of 13 questions to the Organization […]