Curiously, the countries where Catalan language is official are Spain and Andorra. Particularly, in Spain Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, Valencia and in the Balearic Islands. In Andorra, a small country in the heart of the Pyrenees, Catalan is the only... (read more)

Widespread consensus attributes Damascus the priviledge of being the oldest inhabited city in the world. Different sources claim to have been inhabited... (read more)

At present, the definition of Indigeneity has evolved to encompass broader aspects of Indigenous socio-cultural situations in the present world. Initially, the term Indigenous applies to the descendants of groups which occupied an ancestral territory... (read more)

The International Monetary Fund is a financial institution born out after the 2nd World War with the Bretton-Woods Treaty. The devastation created by the 2nd WW brought 730 delegates from 44 countries to a meeting in New Hampshire (United States) to settle... (read more)

It is estimated that there are currently 5,000 different Indigenous peoples in the world with a population between 250 and 300 million people. There are Indigenous populations in all continents, even in Europe, where the Finnish Sami have led a semi-nomadic... (read more)

The word Utopia comes from greek eu topos, literally, not any place or no place. Since the dawn of times or more possibly, since human beings became sedentary and started to live in the messiness of cities disconnected from nature, man has been haunted... (read more)

The word dystopia originates from greek dys- which means bad, abnormal and difficult, and -utopia which means something like any perfect place. The word is the opposite of utopia, that is, the presentation of a repressive world controlled by an all powerful... (read more)

1984 is one of the most important dystopian novels of all times. the novel is a critique of totalitarian regimes that has strong resonances in our contemporary world. The first film adaptation of 1984 was a BBC production directed by Rudolph Cartier... (read more)

Albert Chinualumogu Achebe is a Nigerian-born writer, poet, professor, literary critic and author of one of the most important and best selling... (read more)

Contrary to popular belief, religious diversity in the arab world is very strong and Palestine is not an exception. Not all arabs are Muslims and not all Muslims are arab. In the case of Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank), the majority of the population... (read more)