Orient Occident, a six-piece ensemble from Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Switzerland and France, releases its eponymous debut album today. Banishing all notions of a 'clash of civilisations' their mutual ...

As much as one might long for Arvo PÄrt to be more musically ambitious (just as one might wish his English counterpart, John Tavener, to be less so), this would be missing the point of the Estonian… ...

KOCHI: When Yuletide comes jingling all the way, spreading mirth and radiance in hearts and hearths, there is no escape from the good things that come with it. It is a fact that Christmas is a feast ...

Documentary directed by Philippe Genty, based on footage shot in various countries during his Alexander Expedition, carried out as part of UNESCO’s Major Project Orient–Occident. The film presents a ...

‘The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident’ by Geert Mak (Random House, 2010, 25 TL, pp 160) The Galata Bridge is one of the more obvious metaphors for all those clichéd oppositions that ...

On the occasion of a sculpture exhibition organized at the Musée Cernuschi in 1959 on the theme of the relationship between East and West through fifty centuries of art, Enrico FULCHIGNONI attempts to ...