Pankaj Mishra’s ‘The World After Gaza’ searches for common ground between diverse histories of suffering, but his centring of Jewish trauma leaves Palestine diminished. Esmat Elhalaby, by contrast, re...

Workers in northern Sri Lanka accidentally uncovered the country's largest mass grave – and reopened wounds from its civil war.

A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States

The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...

Recent work in the anthropology of images shares an attunement to the unsettled and unsettling nature of images. Following Spyer's conceptualization of the relationship between images and broader...

Experts tell BBC Verify Google's new feature which lets people generate fake satellite images could be misused.

Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.

Last week, it was announced that 35 universities across the UK, including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde universities in Scotland, had founded…

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

Published in History of Photography (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences

The acclaimed comic-journalist discusses ‘The Once and Future Riot’, violence as a political tool, and the controversy surrounding Penguin India’s decision not to distribute his book

A groundbreaking study of how everyday photographs became instruments of memory, mourning and political resistance in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war.

Author Vindhya Buthpitiya shares insights from the in-depth fieldwork behind her book, A Volatile Picture and discusses how photographs are vital tools for protest, solidarity, and the realization …

Author Vindhya Buthpitiya shares insights from the in-depth fieldwork behind her book, A Volatile Picture and discusses how photographs are vital tools for protest, solidarity, and the realization …

Photography as witness and weapon amid civil warThis groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war and its tu...

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

Photographer Emily Garthwaite documents the farmers, distillers, and communities trying to protect a rose central to Syrian history.

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...