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‘Nowhere, everywhere and anywhere’: Tari Lang on exile and Indonesia in 1965

Forced into exile by the trauma of 1965, Tari Lang revisits a country she loves and its unfinished struggle for freedom in her memoir, My Neighbour, The Dictator.

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Dutch royal family backed colonial rule from the beginning, study finds

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'The Ma'ruf Amin Way': The theoretical ideals of Islamic economics

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Turin fair kicks out neo-fascist publisher after protests

Turin's international book fair refused on Thursday to let a publishing house run by an avowed fascist exhibit at the event following a protest by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust museum and Italian intellectuals.

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Auschwitz museum threatens to shun Italy book fair over neo-fascist presence

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‘Di Kota Tuhan’: Seeing Probolinggo through biblical lens

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Teen activist Greta Thunberg's speeches to be released in a book

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‘Race, Islam and Power’: A troubling tour through a pained land

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Women's Prize for Fiction announces 2019 shortlist

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Lost follow-up to Anthony Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange' discovered

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Digital comic immortalizes the story of R.A. Kartini

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