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Saloua Raouda Choucair
Waterlens 1969–1971, detail
© Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation


Buried Treasures

Buried Treasures

The four small rooms that hold the Saloua Raouda Choucair retrospective at the Tate Modern truly offer the most surprising and enjoyable experience available in London this summer. Choucair was born in 1916 and continues to work in her ninety-seventh year, although...
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Indians look at the sand sculpture of former Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, made by Sudarshan Pattnaik, at the golden beach of Puri, about 67 kilometers (42 miles) from the southeastern Indian temple city of Bhubaneswar, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)


Who Was Margaret Thatcher?

Who Was Margaret Thatcher?

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—I was a child when Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party. She was fifty. Looking at the photographs now, she looks younger than I expected—and this is not merely an effect of me growing older. It is all the fault of her...