The history of this city contains so many of the Big Human Themes. Exile, nostalgia. The course of empire. The maintenance of collective memory. The ways in which religions in close contact melt into each other. Nationalism vs. the Cosmopolis. The limits of tolerance, and the fated vulnerability ...
O que significa e onde se situa a Europa? Essa palavrinha plurissignificativa é corriqueiramente desgastada por muitos de nós para designar um lugar idílico, no qual finalmente reina a paz e o bem estar-social após longos séculos de aprendizados através de intenso conflito e de inúmeras guerras. ...
We are so familiar with nation-states; every country is supposed to have a native population that belongs to a single race or ethnicity, speaks a single language, follows a single religion (or professes nominal ties to it), and expresses itself through a culture produced by the synthesis of the a...