Culture and Media

Geneva, 16 October 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the mob attack on a number of media persons, engaged on duty, in Assam of far eastern India, while they were…

This year’s International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) in Berlin honored uranium weapons expert and activist Damacio A. Lopez with the festival’s Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award. For over thirty years, the US Air Force veteran from New Mexico has campaigned for…

Cinema that’s not for glossy entertainment and making money, but for fostering nationalism, this is how Chalachitram National Film Festival takes shape in Assam. A unique visual feast is coming again for the film buffs on 25 and 26 October…

by George Banez “If not adobo, what food do you miss?”  I asked Dr. Margarita Lavides, fellow academic residing in the U.S.  Currently teaching at universities in the New York metropolitan area, she moved to New Jersey in 2015. After earning…

Interview with Dimitris Eleas about William Shakespeare What follows is what was said between Dimitris Sakislidis* and me for the bibliophilic website Bookia, on the occasion of my book When Shakespeare Was Lost, 1585–1592, published in Athens by the historic…

I’ve long been of the opinion that our modern, generally secularized Western civilization, despite our collective rejection of the traditional religious forms of human conduits to the sacred/profound realms (priests, rabbis, swamis, etc.) has, without realizing it, redirected a deep…

by George Banez “Wake up!” I heard my late mother say.  I remember not budging.  The faint flashes my half-opened eyes caught appeared more like midnight stars. We, four children and mom, likely went to bed at eight that night because…

Geneva, October 3, 2025 (PEC). Two years after the start of the war launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the toll of violence suffered by the media is extremely heavy. At least 217 Palestinian journalists were killed by Israeli…

by Staikou Dimitra Unfortunately, Richard Bach’s saying “The only true law is that which leads to freedom” in the book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, has no application in Pakistan. A former Prime Minister remains imprisoned on allegedly politically motivated charges because…

Two U.S. military veterans allegedly shot and killed at least three people each this past weekend, Thomas Jacob Sanford in Michigan, and Nigel Max Edge in North Carolina. So, it is a safe bet that they will both be added…