Many states are desperate in the face of the coronavirus pandemic: governments are panicking and the economy has already collapsed. This crisis is expected to deepen, all of which assures that humanity will likely be seeking a new path. Everyone seems to be asking: “What has the pandemic changed/ will change socially and politically?” a particularly pertinent question for those ...

Visiting the World Expo Paris in 1900, The Shah of Iran Muzaffar ad-Din was so impressed by a screening of a film he had watched in a pavilion, that he immediately bought a camera and thus took the first step towards the art in his country. The first themed movie was shot in 1929 while national cinema began to take ...

1900 yılında Paris’te düzenlenen Dünya Fuarı’nı ziyaret eden İran Şahı Muzaffereddin bir çadırda seyrettiği film gösteriminden öylesine etkilenir ki hemen bir kamera satın alır ve ülkesinde yedinci sanata dair ilk adımı atmış olur. Uzun süre “sinema” denilince akla kameraya kaydedilmiş görüntülerin geldiği İran’da ilk konulu film 1929’da çekilir ve 1950’lerde sayıları oldukça artmış yapımevleri sayesinde ulusal sinemanın silueti belirginleşmeye başlar. ...

The coronavirus pandemic has more-or-less monopolized cultural imagination in the West, sparking deep reevaluations of our founding myths and values. Even celebrity worship, one of the West’s most cherished institutions, has become a site of bitter resentment, from the public’s passionate disinterest in tone-deaf movie stars pandemic-inspired rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine” to their rage over the preference the rich ...

Have you ever seen a virus with a passport? United States (US) President Donald Trump seems like he must have, since he continues to insist on calling the coronavirus the “China virus.” However, according to the World Health Organization’s decision in 2015, outbreaks cannot be associated with a particular ethnic group based on where breakout, which is why Ebola or ...

Retired Prof. İlter Turan, the biggest propagandist of liberal democracy in our country and the only Turkish Chairman of the International Political Science Congress, caused quite a storm with his recent article entitled ”coronavirus period and authoritarian governance” published on March 23, where he attributes China’s success in fighting the outbreak with ”authoritarian governance”, while capitalist countries are experiencing broad social ...

So far, the coronavirus has affected Eurasia far less than Asia, Western Europe and the United States. Yet, countries across the continent have introduced emergency regimes or increased security measures to fight the spread of Covid-19. There are several possible explanations as to why the region has not been affected by a massive pandemic, although each country has its own ...

Coronavirus: the end of the EU The coronavirus epidemic has hit Europe harder than any other region in the world. If we put the statistics from all EU countries together, the region in the world has the highest number of cases, with the worst situation being in Italy. However, no serious coordination of the fight against coronavirus within the EU ...

Recently, the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, traveled to the United States to meet with political and economic figures who will in some way demarcate the future of the country. The objective is to sign a military agreement between Brazil and the United States that seeks to strengthen ties between the two countries and join forces, among other things, against ...

26 Mart tarihinde Reuters’ta, Emilio Parodi ve Silvia Aloisi imzasıyla yayımlanan yazıya göre, bilim insanları koronavirüsün İtalya’da 2019’un son aylarında ortaya çıkma olasılığını araştırıyor. Araştırma kapsamında o aylarda zatürre ve gripten ölenlerin mezarları da açılabilir. İtalyan araştırmacılar, 2019 yılının son çeyreğinde Lombardiya’da normalden fazla sayıda görülen şiddetli zatürre ve grip vakasının koronavirüsün Çin’in ötesine düşünüldüğünden çok daha önce yayılmış olabileceğinin ...