List of Culture articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Meet the Comedian Making Saudis Laugh About Driving Laws
Fahad Albutairi is revolutionizing Saudi Arabia's comedy scene. This month, he sat down with FP to talk about launching his career on YouTube, going to school in Texas, and walking the fine line of funny and political.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Chinese Billionaire Used Amex Points to Rise to the Top of the New York Art World
Liu Yiqian used credit card points to rise to the top of the art world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mythmaking in the New Myanmar
The film was supposed to win Aung San Suu Kyi’s father a place among the 20th century’s great leaders. Instead, it’s a reminder that the country’s story is still being written.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 You, Too, Can Buy Margaret Thatcher’s Power Suits
Spurned by London’s premier art and design museum, the Iron Lady’s wardrobe is off to the auction block.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Won’t Bolivia’s Ex-President Watch Sandra Bullock’s New Movie With Me?
A quixotic investigation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Decades Later, Rape Case Still Haunts Filmmaker Roman Polanski
In 1977, Roman Polanski was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. Nearly 40 years later, he's still avoiding extradition to the U.S. for it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who Are the Real Child Soldiers?
A new film offers a powerful — but stereotypical — image of child soldiers. Here's what it gets wrong.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The War to Save Syria’s History
Maamoun Abdulkarim works for Bashar al-Assad’s government, but he says he serves a much higher purpose — saving his country’s culture from anyone who threatens it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Congo’s Government Backtracks on Banning Explosive Documentary About Rape
A documentary about rape was banned last month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After international scrutiny, the Congolese reversed that ban this week.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Chinese Oscar Winner that Wasn’t
Wolf Totem is a spectacular film, but its soul is missing. That's just how Beijing wants it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Are Africa’s New Missionaries Peddling?
2014 Global Thinker and visual artist Sam Hopkins joins FP contributor Michela Wrong to discuss the aid industry's skewed view of East Africa — and how artists can offer a better picture.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia to Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst: You’ll Always Have a Home in Crimea
The lead singer of Limp Bizkit loves Russia, and officials there think he'd like Crimea too. They're urging him to feel free to move there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 And the Winner of this Year’s PEN Pinter Award Goes to … the Man Slated for 1,000 Lashes!
Will the award be enough to save Saudi blogger Raif Badawi?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What It’s Like to Be Gay in the Ultra-Masculine NatSec Community
Even post-“don’t ask, don’t tell,” it’s still a world of homophobic slurs and awkward questions about my “wife.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Public Art Project Making the Case for Whistleblowers to Be Regarded as Heroes
By casting Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning in bronze, artist Davide Dormino argues the three activists should be regarded as monumental heroes.
