Take the Rilke 2023 Swiss Tour challenge and you can win a prize!
Farrol's new book on Rilke in Switzerland marks the centenary of a key work by the poet.
Global Sarlat: From prehistory to tomorrow’s world
Why this bijou Perigord town attracts 1.5m visitors each year
Sarlat, a small...
“I’ll kill myself at 80,” said film innovator Peter Greenaway
He turned 80 on 5 April 2022.
Come March 2022, Greenaway released a trailer for his long-in-the-works biopic on Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi titled Walking to Paris (Variety),...
La France contre elle-même, enquête d’un journaliste franco-suisse sur la ligne de démarcation
Faisant régulièrement la navette entre Paris et Genève, Richard Werly était récemment l’invité de l’association Rayonnement français en Suisse, présidée par l’éditrice Suzanne Hurter, pour débattre avec l’historien Michel Porret, professeur à...
La Genève humanitaire immortalisée dans La mesure de l’impossible
Edition Française: « Je n’aime pas le théâtre ». Cette affirmation en ouverture d’une œuvre théâtrale n’est pas banale. Ennuyeux le théâtre ? Il peut l’être parfois. Sauf lorsque le sixième art, celui de la...
‘The mind is a wild monkey’
Zurich-based Nik Baertsch describes his music as like exploring a city and “a kind of acoustical coral reef”. But the preface to his “Useless Guide for Everything” declares: “This book wants to...
Metin Arditi et le onzième commandement: Quand obéir c’est trahir
Un écrivain francophone, d’origine turque, de confession juive et résidant dans la Cité de Calvin doit-il une loyauté sans faille à Israël ? Pour répondre à cette question, Metin...
L’acteur Alfredo Castro: « Je suis engagé avec les processus sociaux parce qu’ils sont...
Vous êtes actif dans la campagne électorale au Chili, dont le second tour aura lieu le 19 décembre. Pourquoi ?
Parce que cela me parait nécessaire. Je soutiens Gabriel...
Tibetan-Swiss artist Kesang Lamdark: Highlighting China’s repression
It was a decade ago. Fabio Rossi
told me I have to meet his artist friend Kesang Lamdark. I called Lamdark and
arranged to meet him in a pub in London where he was...
La veuve de Lokman Slim demande une enquête indépendante sur l’assassinat de son mari
Quel
est le but de votre visite en Suisse ?
Je suis en Suisse pour activer, avec un groupe d’amis, Umam Switzerland, petite sœur suisse de l’association
que nous avons fondée au...
Femmes en Suisse et dans le monde: – – – ...
Les 17 Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) et leurs 169 cibles
composant l’Agenda 2030, adoptés en 2015 par les 193 États membres de l’ONU,
visent un monde plus équitable. L’objectif numéro 5 de cette...
‘American Kompromat’ excerpt by Craig Unger
The following is an excerpt from the book 'American Kompromat' by American author and journalist Craig Unger published 26 January, 2021 (Penguin Publishing Group). You can read a review of this...
American Kompromat: Russia’s attempt to undermine US democracy
There’s no question that the Kremlin played a critical role edging Donald Trump across the finish line in the 2106 election. Virtually all US intelligence agencies agree that after hackers working for...
Livres coups de cœur: ‘Café Vivre’
L’éloge des cafés
Café Vivre est le beau
titre choisi par la romancière et essayiste
française Chantal Thomas
pour introduire le recueil de ses Chroniques en passant, comme elle les nomme
joliment, paru aux...
The long road to the women’s vote in Switzerland
In the Council of States, one of the two
chambers of the Swiss parliament in Bern, one wall is dominated by a fresco in
five panels. Die Landsgemeinde by Albert Welti was completed between
1907...
Le droit au retour des réfugiés et déplacés palestiniens rend-il impossible la paix entre...
Le chaud et le froid. La situation au
Moyen-Orient connaîtra-t-elle un nouvel élan après le départ de Donald Trump,
soutien inconditionnel du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou, l’arrivée
de Joe Biden à la présidence des...
Crimes and punishments of radical artists in Putin’s Russia
“All political prisoners face a Golgotha, a crucifixion,” Krisevich said. “There are thousands of them.” The burning papers in his November 5 performance, Krisevich explained, represent the volumes of indictments fabricated by...
Understanding the hysteria over Hillbilly Elegy
You're not expecting a masterpiece, given the title, right? But did you anticipate this ordinary ($25m) film from Netflix (See trailer) would cause so much anger among liberal critics, when Glenn Close...
Trump’s followers: same as they ever were
French philosopher Jean Baudrillard nearly 40 years ago gave us the insights we need to understand today's Trumpery. (See Peter Hulm's companion article on Hillbilly Elegy)
If French philosopher...
Bruno Barbey: Disappearance of a photographic great
For over five decades, Bruno Barbey photographed across five continents for major international magazines, such as TIME-LIFE, Paris Match and Stern. He also published over 30 books. What he has left is...
Helvetius, face-à-face percutant entre les Helvètes et Jules César
En 58 avant Jésus-Christ, la Gaule indépendante est un vaste territoire
habité par différents peuples d’origine celte. Jules César, politicien romain
ambitieux et contesté, cherche à déclencher une guerre pour assoir son pouvoir,
sa légitimité...
Elie Berheim, un entrepreneur devenu romancier par passion
Table pour trois à New York est un journal intime, un récit polyphonique qui met en scène Gabriel, Norah, Alicia, Charles, Rachel et une belle-mère envahissante mais très aimante. Voyageant entre Paris...
Swiss Journeys: Le Corbusier, artiste aux multiples-talents, précurseur de l’architecture moderne
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, né le 6 octobre 1987 à La Chaux-de-Fonds, choisira de s’appeler Le Corbusier - déformation du nom de son arrière-grand-père maternel Lecorbésier – en 1920. Dessinateur de talent, il laisse...
La Suisse vue de Paris et de Bruxelles
Le correspondant du quotidien Le
Temps à Paris l’affirme : « Si l'on parle
de la Suisse en général, l'image est incontestablement positive. Même les clichés
sur la Suisse sont souvent positifs : discipline, travail, rigueur. Il...
WRITING A NOVEL – A NOVEL EXPERIENCE: The story that would not leave me...
When I sat
down to write a novel several years ago, there were a lot of things I didn’t
know.
For
starters, I didn’t know how to write a novel.
I was strictly...
Rachel et les siens : le roman de Metin Arditi qui relate la Palestine...
Metin Arditi est l’un des écrivains francophones les plus lus. Parmi la douzaine de romans qu’il a signés figurent également Victoria-Hall, La Fille des Louganis, Le Turquetto (Prix Jean Giono 2011), Prince...
Michael Merne Photo Essay: Genevans keep one step ahead of COVID-19
You look at the photographs in today’s electronic and print media and you’re forced to say: “That’s how it is.” But with all the uncertainty and fear that it engenders, you so...
Dinners with Graham Greene
A dinner with Graham Greene in Antibes could start, so to speak, at lunch. As neither of us ever cooked, and there was only a small number of restaurants to be frequented in the...
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Métropole horlogère et ville de culture
Le visiteur prend le train ou la route de la Vue des Alpes pour arriver à La Chaux-de-Fonds. La Métropole horlogère, sise à 1’000 mètres d’altitude, a célébré, en juin 2019 avec...
Genève, une ville de roman et une patrie pour la famille de l’écrivain Joël...
Parc Bertrand, quartier des banques, hôtel des Bergues et autres sites emblématiques font de la ville du bout du lac Léman et de la station de Verbier dans les Alpes suisses les...
The Artistic World of Betsabeé Romero in Mexico
Betsabeé Romero is now listening to the suddenly silent streets of Mexico City, North America’s largest city. From her little street house in the Villa de Cortés district, the artist is on...
Moving together: jazz from a funky Swiss philosopher
Philosophers’ ideas for music are rarely fun. Among the Swiss, Friedrich Nietzsche's music is nobody's idea of a good time. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's compositions hardly rate the effort to preserve them (though one...
Running an English bookstore in the time of the pandemic
Matthew Wake with Clare O'Dea, author of The Naked Irish. (Photo: Books, Books, Books)
A pandemic swept through my bookshop ten years ago. It started quite innocuously when a woman who...
Rural Rock: Queen, Oasis and the Ridge Farm Story
When some 30 police officers raided both Ridge Farm, one of England’s earliest rural rock recording studios, and the nearby Plough Pub, at 6.00 am in spring, 1982, they were hoping to...
COVID-19: Godzilla for the 21st century
Shane Carruth (born 1 January 1972) has positioned himself as a film director who, through science fiction stories, tries to find new ways of presenting narrative and...
Payot: Des livres pour cent ans de plénitude
Edition Française. Global Geneva is including French-language articles on 'international Geneva' themes as part of its worldwide outreach to Francophone audiences. This is part of our ongoing series on books and...
Walking the streets of Kabul: memories and discoveries of a shadowland
Taran Khan is a former writer-in-residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation in Montricher, Switzerland, where she wrote and revised much of this book. (See her Global Geneva article: Living in a...
Zunar: Malaysia’s top cartoonist – How can I be neutral?
The following article is part of Global Geneva’s regular coverage of cartoonists working with Switzerland’s Cartooning for Peace Foundation., one of our media partners.
For Zulkiflee S.M. Anwar...
The Seine: The river that made Paris
One of my favourite
words in French is “partage,” sharing. I love to share stories and open
conversations with others. So I decided to write a book about a subject that
gave me joy and...
Switzerland’s Prisoners of War during two world wars and beyond.
Internment in Switzerland During World
War One is my second book relating to Swiss history.
My first, Healthy Living in the Alps, was about the search for a cure
from TB and the subsequent development...
Swiss Journeys: Neuchâtel – combining nature and culture (Part I)
The following is Part I of two-article reportage by Italo-Swiss journalist Luisa Ballin on the Canton of Neuchâtel as part of Swiss Journeys, our regular Global Geneva series of discovery. (Also to be published in...
Made in U.S.A. – Godard spilt the beans on politics and atrocity
Jean-Luc Godard - who died on 13 September 2022 at 91 - made probably the most charmless films in the history of cinema. But this statement should be read as a description not a...
The Capital of Civilization: Brexit, populism and the 150th anniversary of the Siege of...
It may be no surprise if the 150th anniversary of the Prussian army’s descent on Paris with the largest siege force ever assembled draws few headlines. The seeds of woe it planted -- a...
LETTER FROM GHAZNI: The Palace in the brush
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, IN SEPTEMBER 2003, I journeyed to Ghazni, whose name means “jewel,” situated on Highway 1 south of Kabul. A trading and transit hub for central-eastern Afghanistan, it is now a city of...
Afghanistan: Struggling to preserve a country’s heritage
THE STONE STUPA AT TOPDARA IN THE FOOTHILLS above the Koh-e Daman plain north of Kabul is testament to the rich cultural heritage of the region. It is one of a string of sites...
Masood Khalili’s Whispers of War – A guerrilla’s journey during the Soviet occupation of...
FOCUS: Forty years of war in Afghanistan. This extract is published in our 2018/19 Winter Edition of Global Geneva. It is also part of Global Geneva's ongoing series on Afghanistan.
It is now 7:20 pm....
Chantal Akerman – In search of lost culture
In 2022 one of her productions has been voted the greatest film of all time by British Film Institute experts
Perhaps I should not have been shocked...
Rilke’s Valais: ‘I have this country in the blood’
Until he saw the Valais, Rilke was somewhat dismissive of Switzerland. He wrote to friends from Sils, where Nietzsche found refuge 50 years before, that the “stupid” mountains were no more than “imposing barriers,...
Swiss Journeys: A weekend in the Valais – culture, vineyards and thermal baths
The Valais (or Wallis in German), southeast of Lake Geneva, is one of Switzerland’s most sun-drenched cantons, offering up to 2,000 hours a year of sunlight. The protective positioning of the Alps overlooking the...
The Short Story: American Lottery
Global Geneva is initiating a new component focusing on creative writing. The following is an excerpt from the short story ‘American Lottery’ by award-winning author Gazmend M. Kapllani. This was published in the June-September 2018...
