East 50, at newsstands and bookshops from the 1st of November in a slimmer format and featuring important new content, hosts Sergio Romano’s views on the bungled expulsion of the wife of Kazakh dissident Muxtar Ablyazov and Sandro Gozi’s take on the upcoming European elections while Franco Bernabè weighs the risks of an Internet smothered by crime and espionage. BBC correspondent David Willey analyses the impact of the “Pop Pope”, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and Peter de Vrai presents the speech Queen Elizabeth II would have given to announce a Soviet nuclear attack on her country. But that’s not all: get the inside story on the “blood brothers” of the Syrian civil war, Angela Merkel’s future prospects and the rising tension between Spain and the UK over Gibraltar; plus a rich dossier on Earth’s natural resources.
James Hansen is EAST’s new editor-in-chief. A former diplomat in Italy since 1975, Hansen was Vice-Consul for the United States in Naples before moving to journalism as Rome correspondent for Britain’s Daily Telegraph and for the International Herald Tribune. He has since been Chief of Press for Olivetti, Fininvest and Telecom Italia.
On a quest for a ‘pure’ gaze on the world, the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard University has produced some of the most interesting documentaries in recent years.
The UN high commission for refugees and the Swedish firm Ikea have joined forces to come up with something better than a tent for those who, following some disaster or other, have to leave their homes.
“What is the most important resource on the planet?” This was the question East asked of four young Europeans with a passion for the environment. They answered through their observation of the world, by letting their experience of life shine through and by questioning their own thoughts. Looking into the future.
With eight of the highest peak s on the planet, Nepal is ever y climber’s Valhalla. Pity its many gushing rivers exer t an equally fatal att raction on dam builders.
It’s over. Finally, the eurozone has exited the longest and worst recession since the Great Depression of the ’30s. But who should take the credit for ushering the 17-country bloc out of economic darkness?
