Ypsilantis. Times of Iranian History – 2/3

Iranian identity is a whole that combines amplitude and density. This sense of identity is based on the solid awareness of belonging to one of the oldest civilizations of humanity, a civilization that encompasses a pre-Islamic but also Islamic heritage. Let us hasten to add, however, that unlike Arab countries where religion and ethnic identity … Read more

“Let us tell”: a human encounter to decolonize history

Talking stick in hand, Abenaki director Kim O’Bomsawin and her team traveled more than 30,000 kilometers between September 2020 and May 2022 to create the new documentary series “Laissez-nous parle”, which is coming to ICI Télé over the next few Saturdays. Huge fresco, the series, as useful as necessary, seeks to restore the facts on … Read more

Retro: from Marcel Saupin to Antoine Kombouaré, the history of FC Nantes

Winner of the Coupe de France, FC Nantes ended 21 years without a trophy. An anomaly finally repaired for a club eight times champion of France. April 21, 1943: Creation of the club The Nantes Football Club was founded in Nantes on April 21, 1943. It resulted from the merger between several already existing Nantes … Read more

History of medicine and prevention, Rispoli: “A museum

A festival that combines science and music, social solidarity and culture, art and spirituality, anthropology and medicine. An event that looks in the perspective of preventive education to the future of the new generations, starting from the lessons of the past. But also an unprecedented review devoted to the common good that intertwines, from North … Read more

HISTORY. “When I was two I guessed the songs starting from three notes. Today I sing about the neuroses of society and with music I help young people and the elderly “

When he was thirteen he played the guitar, but at the age of two his father challenged him by putting him to the test: strumming three notes he had to guess the title of the song. Since then, the passion for music has never been extinguished, indeed over the years it has rekindled. He was … Read more

From deities to soulless beings: the myths and beliefs about animals throughout history

In some religions certain animals are sacred, such as the cow in Hinduism, while in others they are even repudiated, the dog in Muslim culture The vast majority of religious beliefs and mythical beliefs, one of the fundamental bases of human thought, they almost always give the animal a secondary role. Maybe be San Francisco … Read more

Hollywood has a long history of whitewashing racialized characters

Faced with the surge of racist hatred against the presence of a black actress to embody Ariel in the live-action The Little Mermaid, it is necessary to remember that Hollywood erased, until recently, racialized characters from its films, by casting white actors and actresses in their place… You couldn’t miss this week: the emotional reactions … Read more

“Malinche”: the musical by Nacho Cano that brings to the stage the history of the conquest of Mexico

Nacho Cano’s new musical celebrates the meeting between two peoples and the world that emerged from this historic event: miscegenation. The Spanish composer brings to the stage the love story between Hernán Cortés and the indigenous Malinche –lover and interpreter of the conqueror– to praise this woman who was the mother of the first mestizo: … Read more