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Rock Art in Panna - What does it mean to the people who live there?

Rock art is widely found in caves and along shady parts of the rocky Vindhya hills of Central India, where the Panna Tiger Reserve is located. These are truly beautiful paintings, but what is their significance to the present local community?

Shekhar Kolipaka • 01-07-2015

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Approaching Carthage: Image and Reality

The Byrsa, the hill where the center of ancient Carthage was situated, is not very impressive. The image of Carthage in European collective memory is. Or is it not?

Pieter ter Keurs • 12-06-2014

Digitalisation

Mali’s Heritage: Beyond Timbuktu

Mali is in the news because of the deployment of Dutch military personnel. Media coverage conjures up images of the 2012 destruction of Timbuktu’s World Heritage mausoleums and mosques. Might heritage also have a role in bringing peace and national unity?

Henrike Florusbosch • 04-06-2014

Digitalisation

Carthage: The image of a lost city

An exhibition always poses problems of representation. In the case of the lost city of Carthage: stereotypes and a lack of information. By its upcoming exhibition the National Museum of Antiquities seeks to shed new light on the Tunisian Unesco site.

Pieter ter Keurs • 12-03-2014

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New Moroccan cinema reflects diversity in society

Until March 19th, EYE shows the work of contemporary Moroccan film makers. They present non-exotic and diverse images of their own society; fictitious stories that contain cutting-edge social analyses.

Janine Prins • 05-03-2014

Diversity · Digitalisation

The urge to forget: collective amnesia as a byproduct of the Westgate Mall attacks

On Saturday 21 September the Westgate Mall in Nairobi was taken over by militants. They killed and injured a shocking number of visitors and occupied the building for days. Kenya fought back by emphasizing the unity and solidarity among its citizens.

Marlous van den Akker • 02-10-2013

Blogs

Rock Art in Panna - What does it mean to the people who live there?

Approaching Carthage: Image and Reality

Mali’s Heritage: Beyond Timbuktu

Carthage: The image of a lost city

New Moroccan cinema reflects diversity in society

The urge to forget: collective amnesia as a byproduct of the Westgate Mall attacks