by Peter Speetjens | 21/02/2018 | Art & Culture
Born in South Africa, Dean Bradshaw grew up in Australia where he spent much of HIS childhood catching lizards and other reptiles. Having obtained a degree in zoology, he worked as a field biologist before moving to California to become a full-time photographer known...
by Peter Speetjens | 06/02/2018 | India
Zo heroïsch als soms het leven soms, zo ironisch is vaak de dood. Mohandas ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi predikte zijn hele leven lang geweldloosheid en religieuze tolerantie om uiteindelijk op 30 januari, 1948, door een hindoe-extremist te worden vermoord. Gandhi werd 78. Een dag...
by Peter Speetjens | 06/12/2017 | Middle East
The Dutch chapter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement recently asked me to write an essay for Art, Solidarity and Palestine, a day of conferences and debate about the pros and cons of an Israeli boycott due to be held on 29 November, the United...
by Peter Speetjens | 11/09/2017 | Middle East
MIDDLE EAST EYE; Sept 2, 2017 Text Peter Speetjens What’s a life worth? That is the question that came to my mind when Canada’s Supreme Court awarded former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr $8.4m in damages earlier this summer. It produced a wave of...
by Peter Speetjens | 10/07/2017 | Middle East
This month 150 years ago, Mark Twain left New York aboard a retired Civil War vessel named The Quaker City for a “pleasure trip” across Europe and the Middle East. Aged 32, Twain was not yet the Twain we know today. Born in 1835 as Samuel Clemens, he was a young...
