A thousand times no

Year: 2013 | Published by: TED

Art historian Bahia Shehab has long been fascinated with the Arabic script for ‘no.’ When revolution swept through Egypt in …

Last dictator standing – advert

Year: 2011 | Published by: Nando’s

Nando’s South Africa TV advert pokes fun at Zimbabwean’s President Robert Mugabe as he prepares to dine alone, reflecting on …

In the Country of Men

Year: 2006 | Published by: Penguin Books

Suleiman is a nine-year-old boy living in Tripoli, Libya. The book documents Suleiman’s life that is embroiled between a father …

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Year: 2009 | Published by: Spiegel & Grau

This book is the first to follow the lives of ordinary people in North Korea, one of the most repressive …

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo

Year: 2000 | Published by: Fourth Estate London

This thrilling book recounts the extravagant tyranny of Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) for …