Human rights

It is Saturday, 23 March. It’s a cool, early spring night, still on wintertime. Barcelona’s Rambla del Raval is buzzing with people. Groups of tourists and locals photograph themselves next to Botero’s cat, while others crowd the terraces that line …

The expression “a picture is worth a thousand words” can also be applied to children’s drawings. A drawing can evoke more than a thousand words and emotions. Images speak, and so do drawings. In a world where adults often speak …

We all know where Mesopotamia is, having studied it in school as the cradle of Mediterranean civilisation, where writing was born: the vast territory between the Tigris and Euphrates, the fertile crescent, inhabited by the Sumerians, the Medes, the Assyrian-Babylonians.…