The Spanish Empire was one of the first great colonial empires and one of the largest. Here Professor Alberto Maestre Fuentes talks about its former colony in Africa, The Spanish Sahara, which…

From her Kashmiri grandfather dying in the Great War to being brought up and educated in the UK, Riffi Khan repays her gratitude by urging others to realise their dreams through education, as…

In the era of Trump, Cold War and undiplomatic language, the art of diplomacy is getting lost. As an antidote, we consider a new book by Rosalie Rivett. Professor Nabil Ayad writes a  review…

A new book takes us deep inside the remarkable life of intrepid war-correspondent Marie Colvin, who blazed trails for reporting the truth agianst the odds - and for independent fearless women.…

Pano Masti’s latest literary pilgrimage takes him to Jordan. Never mind Oscar Wilde or T. E. Lawrence, the words that echo in his mind are from women: Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Gertrude…

American political journalist Helen P. Horst considers the political landscape with leaders on the ropes and problems multiplying. You know that cartoon of people at a dinner-party table? It’s…

Together with the prince of Allegria, Roberto Benigni, we remind the Italian politicians about to form a new governement the true meaning of their national anthem. Massimo Gava writes. In the…

On the 4th of March 2018, Italy, the third-largest continental European economy, goes to the polls. Italians are electing a new parliament, hoping for a majority government and a prime minister.…

Spanish commentator Antonio Muñiz explains his country’s crisis – starting with basics, then analysing what comes next in a complex political puzzle. Close your eyes and imagine this slightly…

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The U.S. President’s decision to walk away from the Paris agreement is the subject of this in-depth inquiry by Pari Esfandiari and Lassi Noponen. It had been long expected. Donald Trump had…

THIS IS A SNEAK PEAK OF ONE OF THE ARTICLES ON THE NEW DANTE PRINT MAGAZINE FOR JUNE-JULY - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE IF YOU LIKE IT Our financial expert Kevin Regan, with his own connections and knowledge…

In our spring issue of DANTE, we have talked about Arab Spring, and now it is the turn of Western Spring. This is being published online as France decides on a new president and all eyes are…

THIS ARTICLE IS AN INTERNET VERSION OF A COMMENTARY USED IN A FULLER FORM IN THE DANTE PRINT MAGAZINE AVAILABLE ON PHONE APP, IN LARGER W.H.SMITHS AND INDEPENDENT RETAILERS IN THE U.K. AND ON…

American commentator Helen Polly Horst looks to the future for DANTE and asks what will happen, whoever becomes the new U.S. president You only know an election is getting to boiling point when…

How should the great behemoth of Europe and its institutions reconnect with its dwindling band of voters? With a major member, the United Kingdom, deciding on its future role, Cristiana…

At DANTE, we take the long view. Beyond the question, will Britain stay in Europe - what can we say of Europe whatever the result? Kevin Regan reported for us on this back in April and his article…

Our civilisation is so advanced and sophisticated we need not fear. Alas pride comes before a fall. Dantemag investigates how we are maybe at the same point the Roman Empire reached before the…

A simple guide by a physicist turned economist. By Steve McCarthy What is this COP21 that starts on Monday, November 30 in Paris? Well, COP stands for “Conference of all the Parties”, so this…

One question: is the UK economy going to be safe in the hands of Jeremy Corbyn? That obviously assumes that the new leader of the Labour Party will get a chance to make his mark, be in post to…

In the West it has become almost a truism by Rosalie Rivett that Muslim women, especially those in the Arab world, are oppressed, voiceless and – to put it bluntly – miserable. As with most…

National elections in an African state need not concern us unduly, one might be forgiven for thinking but on February 14th it is none other than Nigeria that goes to the polls, one of the most…

Isabel Moreira has become one of the leading light in Portuguese politics but Dantemag finds out if the drastic changes austerity measures have imposed on so many Europeans mean the country’s…

For a long time now the Italian stage has been dominated by the figure of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his violent confrontation with the judiciary, in particular with some public…

Investment bankers are such a toxic brand, it is inconceivable that anyone could write a best-selling novel about them. However, Massimo Gava meets Guido Maria Brera, the Italian writer who has…

Nonno Panda and... the Rhino - One day, wandering along life’s path, I got lost in a dark jungle, unable to find the right way …   I stumbled across a small herd of rhinos. It was the…

A client is a client and without faults, but I am a professional and if he doesn’t like my findings it’s his problem. I am not here to please or to bolster anybody’s ego, but to analyse…

There is nothing new under the sun. This includes the phenomenon of women taking part in combat. It is only in our short-sighted, modern view that we see this as something strange, something innovative,…

Before I begin, I have to declare an interest. For the past fourteen years, a big part of my professional life has been devoted to the strategising, designing and multipartnership implementation…

Arica, Chile, situated in one of By Mike Hawthorne the most desolate climates in the world, has always been a city on the edge – far from the centres of power, clinging on in a hostile environment,…

With an explosion of graffiti, Egypt’s young artists, sometimes more exuberant than skilled, claim a ground for free speech and memorialising the country’s fight for freedom. It is a ground…

Photos by Alfredo Rossi A Mild-Mannered Italian Traveller in North Korea As this edition of Dante goes to press the peak of the North Korean crisis seems to have passed. At least we hope it has,…

The extraordinary nature of the events in the Vatican in the weeks leading up to Easter celebrations cannot be understated. For the first time in over seven hundred years a pope voluntarily resigned…

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has asserted that there is a threat from the “strange union” of Islam and the political Left in the West, particularly in Europe. Nir Boms and Shayan Arya…

As globalisation hurtles forward at an ever- quickening pace, there have, at times, seemed to be recurrent resurgences of nationalism, especially in Europe, as a reflexive response. But is this…

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it – or so it’s said. But what of those who don’t simply forget the past, but actively squelch it, erase it, stamp it out, revise it? Perhaps…

Humans are crowding into the rafters of the planet. Are we on a march to an extinction of our own making? Or can we get a grip in this generation and find a rational and sane solution? The power…

Egypt is the “Gift of the Nile,” said Herodotus, some 3,000 years ago. That is still true today, but as the struggle for resources heats up along with the global temperature, the countries…

“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires…

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing…

America's gone AWOL- a Native Son's lament from exile. N Nine months after I was born, JFK was assassinated in Dallas. I have no memory of my own of that, but I clearly remember my father weeping…

When Europeans landed in the Americas, they established a template for the exploitation of the land and the subjugation of its people. That pattern is still playing out with eerie precision, more…

By Antonia Bruns Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the Spanish region of Galicia, is the final destination of the 1000-year-old international pilgrimage called The Way of St. James. It is…

Nobody gets out alive. It's not a reality that humans like to look at, as a general rule. And for many of us – particularly in the developed world – it's pretty easy to avert our eyes from…

The rising generation in Germany is now as much as four generations removed from the Nazi era. Their parents were born after the war, their grandparents were still young during the war. Today’s…

When the tide of war washes over a country, the world’s attention focuses on the drama of battle, the sweep of geopolitical manoeuvres, the showy posturing of politicians who claim to seek peace.…

Beginning in Tunisia in late 2010 and spreading across the region in the following months, the extraordinary events of the Arab uprisings unfolded across the region in 2011 as the world watched,…