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Afshin Rattansi has been represented by both A. P. Watt and Curtis Brown Literary Agencies. He was born in Cambridge, England in 1968 and has lived in Princeton, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Caracas, Dubai and Havana as well as London. After the hurricanes of the nineteen-eighties, he worked on environmental and geopolitical risk for Lloyd's of London. He has written on literature, politics, fashion, b… Read moreAfshin Rattansi has been represented by both A. P. Watt and Curtis Brown Literary Agencies. He was born in Cambridge, England in 1968 and has lived in Princeton, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Caracas, Dubai and Havana as well as London.
After the hurricanes of the nineteen-eighties, he worked on environmental and geopolitical risk for Lloyd's of London. He has written on literature, politics, fashion, business and current affairs for The Guardian, New Statesman and Society, Plays and Players, The Oldie, Gulf News and many other publications.
Most of his life has been spent in journalism: producing programmes for Channel 4 and BBC News and BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme in the UK. More recently, he has worked on award-winning investigative programmes for the Arabic language station, Al Jazeera.
He also helped launch the world's first 24-hour, developing nation, English-language satellite television news network, based in the Middle East. He was its editor between 1999 and 2001. In 2002, he won a Sony award for his outstanding contribution to international media and journalism.
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I was reasonably happy with my premium SZ260P despite some misgivings about the keyboard and the heat generated by it.
Within four months, keys on the keyboard have begun to fall out. Problems with the spacebar have been well documented...all in all, the build quality has basic design faults despite the beautiful screen and efficient processors etc.
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IN Ian Kershaw's introduction he describes Weimar as an expression of modernity, in that during the 14 years of the Republic, 'nearly all the possibilities of modern existence were played out and in a whole number of scientific, technological and cultural spheres, the features of the world in which we live today, arose.' These essays present widely differing views as to why such a powerful expression of modernity led to disaster. No failed democracy has come under so much historical scrutiny: in recent years debate has centred on whether it was doomed from the outset. Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich finds the root of Weimar's problems in the high level of German interest rates, leading to high wage… Read more
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The controversiality, intelligence and sparkling clarity of Howard Barker's Arguments For A Theatre is startling. His is a theatre of responsible surrealism, that Art should not be digestible but rather act as 'an irritant in consciousness, like the grain of sand in the oysters gut.' This short book begins with the assumption that as we live the extinction of 'official socialism,' the opposition must take root in art. It ends with the observation that the greatest plays wound rather than reward, that in a world run by a necessity for its moral and emotional survival, it will endure the wound as a man drawn from a swamp endures the pain of the rope.
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