Books & ideas

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  Review

  

  Society

  Of Cities and Their Mores

  About: Joseph Ben Prestel, Emotional Cities. Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo (1860-1910), Oxford University Press

  by Denis Bocquet, 12 November

  What do late nineteenth-century Berlin and Cairo have in common? The German historian Joseph Ben Prestel accepts the challenge of comparing these two cities in order to interrogate the boundaries between Europe and the Middle East, as well as orientalism’s assumptions.

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Books & ideas
Forcing Vaccine Progress
by Oumy Thiongane, 8 November
Financial interests and health policies in the Philippines

Essay


How Oracles Are Forged
by François Héran, 5 November
The prophecy of an African scramble for Europe

Interview

Beyond Commodification
by Élodie Bertrand, 1 November
An interview with Margaret Jane Radin