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 Prof. Petrie, the head of the association of foreign lecturers in Italy, began by noting that “the Brexit debate has been unconvincing on both sides” and marred by scaremongering. He underlined the importance of the EU for continuing peace and security and demolished a constellation of myths about Britishness. Francis greets lifeguards with dogs in Saint Peter's square. PHOTO CREDIT: ERIC VANDEVILLE

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Te Rome received testimonies of a re- telephone recording only shows that Cambridge don of Egyptian origin story say that in order to get to the academics at Cambridge and at the ported interrogation of eight people; of the month of March. responsible for Giulio Regeni’s the- bottom of the case, it is necessary American University of Cairo, where one of whom was said to be Regeni’s Tis partial collaboration cou- sis, to break silence and collaborate to look in detail at every aspect of Regeni was under the wing of super- fat-mate, the other seven claimed pled with the impregnable silence with Italian investigators to help de- the project that Regeni undertook, visor Rabab El Mahdi, “should both acquaintances of the fve presumed of those at the University of Cam- termine the truth behind the murder right from the start. Te method of have been well aware of the realities bandits killed in a shoot-out. bridge, leaves the truth still very of the Cambridge student. research that was chosen to inves- of the danger surrounding the inde- However the accounts are vague far from being reached, with the Ms Abdelrahman earlier this tigate the Egyptian independent pendent trade unions in Egypt” the and reportedly of dubious reliabili- enforced temporary suspension of month publicly declared “I won’t give trade unions, was PAR (Participato- Espresso magazine writes. ty, with the statements having been the political initiative of the Italian a formal statement to the Italian au- ry action research): one that implies Tese organisations, considered hand-written in Arabic, proving dif- government. thorities” following the trip to En- direct participation with the inter- the “enemies of power” by the Al Sisi cult to decipher. Also sent, was a note It appears that for the time being, gland of Italian investigators carry- nal running of the organisations, government, run enormous risks summarising the fnding of Regeni’s there is little more that the family ing an international letter rogatory, thus improved clarity and accuracy, given the ruling of ofcial documents identity card at the bandits’ house and friends of Giulio Regeni can do police ofcials have reported. but one which, in a country such as of any “attempts to destabilise the by the Egyptian police, the doctors’ but wait and hope that those who Judge Sergio Colaicco, a member Egypt where every activity is rigidly regime to be opposed”, calling in to autopsy report of the bandits found have the ability to ofer elucidation of the Italian investigatory team controlled by the political regime, question the responsibility of those dead and a printout of telephone re- on this tragic case, fnd the “courage dealing with this case, was thus re- greatly augments the likelihood of supervising Regeni’s studies. Eforts cordings. However this information to regain the moral and ethical di- bufed by Abdelrahman in his eforts exposure. to resolve the case surrounding Re- is allegedly incomplete: the Egyptian mensions” of this quest for truth. to shed light on this tragic story, A plethora of queries arise sur- rendering their trip to England all rounding this approach to research but fruitless. Tis confrms the Cam- in such a politically unstable coun- bridge professor’s decision to follow try: When was it decided that Regeni the University’s legal advice to stay would conduct his research under silent and comes as a blunt rejection the auspices of PAR? Who proposed to the mother of the late student’s this method of research? Had they pleas, for those involved “to whom fully evaluated the level of danger? we unquestionably entrusted Giulio, And above all, who were the contacts to have courage to overcome this given to Regeni, both academic and moral apathy” to obtain justice for those within the trade unions? It her son. was in an efort to answer questions Tis latest stance of Abdelrahman, of responsibility surrounding this in which she refuses to even give a choice of methodology, that the Ital- comment, marks a stark contrast ian investigators came to Cambridge, from her initial reaction, where she, but as yet their eforts have been re- as part of a group of academics pub- warded with silence. lically confrmed their “shock and Ms Abdelrahman, who relocated to England from Egypt to become a pro- fessor specialising in DPhil studies of the Middle East and North Africa in the Department of POLIS (Politics and International Relations) at the University of Cambridge, is alleged- ly in opposition to the Abd Fattah al Sisi regime. She attended the funer- al ceremony of Giulio Regeni, where she listened to his parents’ pleas for justice and solidarity, before a few hours later, choosing to keep silent. Tis has lead to allegations that her decisions might be motivated by fear of the regime as well as the possibili- ty of being sued for negligence. Maha Abdelrahman. Photo credit: Univer- Members of the Regeni family and sity of Cambridge close friends of Giulio, have been Regeni parents and lawyer hold banner demanding truth. Photo credit: Remo Casilli 4 June 2016 #VTJOFTT [email protected] www.italianinsider.it

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May 1, to Mexico City, which opened uniforms was their revelation that break into the global market, and laboration projects, which focus par- Along with their new focus on press, on June 16, and to Beijing, which is they were on target to reach their with their elegant new look it is easy ticularly in the felds of economy and communications and marketing, in- set to open on July 18. Teir empha- goal of “proftability” by 2017, with to believe that they just might do so. culture, and are being overseen by the cluding a video with the well-known Italy-Arab Emirates Association. Italian song “Volare” performed by Francesco Rutelli, the former Italian Malika Ayane and the slogan “Vivi, Vice-President, Minister for Culture Ama, Vola” [Live, Love, Fly], Alitalia and Rome Mayor, is overseeing the were keen to impress their new cus- projects for the Italian side and fn- tomer focus and their desire for close ished a recent trip to the Gulf country links with Italy itself, promoting the with the frst of their joint meetings. “Made in Italy” label with their own Te president of the Emirates board twist to become “Made of Italy.” is S. E. Homaid al Shemmeri, the CEO Italian designer Ettore Bilotta con- of Mubadala Aerospace, Engineering ceived the new uniforms, with each and Energy, who also owns the entire- component coming from various ty of Piaggio Aereo, the multinational regions across Italy, such as Ital- aerospace manufacturing company ian leather handbags and gloves, as based in Genoa, is heading the Arab well as the famous Marches shoes. delegation. Together with him are 19 Female cabin crew staf will be high-level representatives of the prin- dressed in a 50s style outft of wine cipal economic, production and social red, whilst the male staf, pilots and organisations of the country. ground staf will be decked in olive In 2015 the commercial trade agree- green and grey to represent two of ment between Italy and the UAE to- Italy’s most famous exports. talled a record seven billion euros, with As Vice-President James Hogan put Italian exports breaking their quota it, “When you board an Alitalia fight of six billion. “Yet we can still do so you should feel as though you’ve al- much more,” says Rutelli. “I’ve come ready entered Italy, wherever you are across huge possibilities of collabora- in the world.” tion for investment between the two According to president Luca di countries and for cooperation in the Montezemolo the choice not to team cultural feld. Tere is an opportunity up with a big name Italian fashion to reinforce the interest seen for the brand was because they “wanted to Milan 2015 Expo experience, with the keep the Alitalia brand, and not de- view to Dubai 2020. To begin with, in tract from this.” Having said this fact, the Emirates have set in motion a they have already partnered up with policy of diversifcation from their oil some big Italian brands, such as La- based economy, an example which has vazza, to ofer “clearly good Italian then been followed by various other food” with “regional cuisine and countries in the region.” wine.” Teir new airport lounges will Rutelli has had a series of meetings also be equipped with a live kitchen, with representatives from investment top class chefs and wood-fred pizza funds, the Emirate airline, Dubai port, ovens. economic organisations in the energy For the female uniforms Bilotta and sustainability sectors, and with said that he wished to “evoke the the centre of studies for security. Fi- elegance of a time, where life is em- nally he met with tourism managers, phasised by transmitting a strongly as this is a large area in which Italy feminine ideal, which adds elegance and the United Arab Emirates hope to the necessary practicalities and to build links. He elaborated by say- versatility.” For the male uniform ing, “Last year 300,000 Italians visited on the other hand he wanted to “add the Emirates, but we need to reinforce a touch of ‘dandy’: with the dou- our ofering, to recall the classes who ble-breasted waistcoat.” are best-of from this and other coun- “I wanted to confer the expression tries in the region. Also, like this we of the purest Italian style to the proj- build a stable meeting of civilisations, ect, imagining that Italy could be a marginalising extremists, rejecting dream for everyone and that a fight liquidator slogans about Islam, and with Alitalia would be like being in valuing the wish for a balance, which an elegant parlour,” he explained. is strong amongst the more advances Troughout the event emphasis was Cabin Crew, Ground Staf and Pilots model the new uniforms. Photo Credit: ALITALIA Gulf States.” 6 June 2016 6/
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“We joined the resistance for them, ment’s memory” comments Daylan. for the Kurdish people and for all Since 1978 the war between Turkey the downtrodden all over the world. and the Kurdish Workers’ Party has We’ve given our lives over for the caused more than 40,000 deaths. In sake of the people, completely. Te 2013 Ankara and the movement un- true guerrilla gives everything for dertook a peace dialogue that devel- the cause. Te true guerrilla is a dead oped in a ceasefre and in the prom- guerrilla”, explains Daylan, 30, while ise, for the more than 20 million we walk through the 400 graves in Kurds living in Turkey, of a feeble the small Mehmet Karagsur ceme- form of autonomy. tery. “Te peace process began to vacil- Te white headstones bear the en- late when the PKK helped the PYD graved names and dates of casualties to save Kobane, preventing Daesh, from 20 years of wars. Some of them back then supported by Ankara, to have just the word “shahid”, martyr, reach the border with Turkey,” says on it. Others, in a far corner, are just Reza Altun, founder of the PKK and a mound of fresh earth topped by executive member of the KCK, the some withered fowers. T e bodies Kurdish umbrella organization that have been transported from the scat- hosts the parties of Iraq, Iran, Tur- tered battles that the PKK is waging key and Syria united by Ocalan’s po- against the Islamic State with great litical program. efort. Altun never sleeps three days in In south eastern Turkey dozens of a row in the same place. He arrived similar burial grounds have been de- at the location of our interview, a stroyed by the government: “Tou- hidden spot in the wood, climbing a sands of people visit them every year. stony path, accompanied by a guer- A young guerrilla Erdogan is trying to kill the move- rilla. June 2016 13 [email protected] www.italianinsider.it UP
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Yet, Russia and China have just signed Romania a missile system, the ABM, which the dominance, provided that NATO kept existing to take the path of confrontatio, in order to be a US$25 billion deal to boost Chinese lending to US has declared will protect from “rogue” states, borders. taken seriously. He put a knife in a side of the Russian frms, and a host of other accords. Russia like Iran. Te fact that this agreement was not main- West, by dividing once again the two halves of has agreed a US$400 billion deal to supply China Russia, especially after the agreement reached tained has always been present in the Russian Ukraine, obliging the West to sink hundreds of with 38 billion cubicmeters of gas annually, from with Iran on the control of its atomic industry, psyche. When Reagan met Gorbachev in Reyka- billions of dollars to sustain a deeply corrupt gov- 2018 for the next 30 years. is convinced that the system is intended for use vik in 1986, Putin was in his mid-30s, and the ernment in Kiev, and its ability to turn the knife Russia’s Sberbank has received a US$966 mil- against its military forces. Te US has announced Soviet Union stretched from the river Elba to the when he wanted. lion credit line from the China Development it will build another second site in Poland in 2018. Bering Strait, and from the Artic to Afghanistan. Tis move led to the establishment of sanc- Bank. China is launching a US$2 billion-invest- Te intention is to move from “reassurance” of Te USSR was a superpower, present in Africa, tions by the West in 2014, with the declared ment fund, targeting agricultural projects. And eastern Nato allies to “deterrence” of the Krem- the Caribbean and Central America, with import- goal of having Putin capitulate and abandon his US$19.7 billion will go to open a rail link be- lin. Tat means more troops and equipment, ant allies in Asia. intervention in Ukraine. But then, Putin again tween Moscow and the Russian city of Kazan. At longer deployments, bigger exercises, and a “per- When Putin turned 40, his country had splin- intervened outside its borders, by intervening the same time, Russia agreed to cancel it ban on sistent” presence of Nato and American troops in tered into 15 separate. And when he came to in Syria, where since Stalin’s time, Russia has a weapon’s sale to China, and a deal was done for countries like Poland and the Baltic countries. power in 1999, the USSR had lost one-third of naval base. Te arrival of Russia has completely the sale of an S-400 air defence system to China In June, as many as 12 000 American troops his territory, and half of its population. Kazakh- changed the situation in Syria, and now every- (to the great annoyance of the United States and will join servicemen and women from a num- stan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turk- body agrees that there cannot be any military Japan), for US$3 billion with another US$2 bil- ber of European allies in Poland for an exercise menistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan were gone. solution without Russia’s agreement. lion for the sale of 24 Su-35 fghter planes. Te called Anakonda, which will be the largest mili- Nato continued its endless habit of encircling Is Russia still “ a regional power”, or has it be- two countries declared that they would increase tary exercise in Europe for years. Altogether, 25 Russia. After he persuaded Kiev to join a Moscow come again a global player? their bilateral trade to US$200 billion by 2020. 000 troops from 24 Nato and partner countries –led economic union, Putin saw the Ukraine-pro Of course, one key principle behind US foreign But what is totally new and important is that will be involved. Te US Deputy Secretary of De- Russian government overthrown in a US backed policy is that nobody should challenge its power. both countries also decided to strengthen mil- fence, Robert Work, has announced that 4 000 coup. Te encirclement continues today, com- Yet it is a principle, which is becoming increasing- itary cooperation. Tis year they will join in a Nato troops, involving two US battalions, will be prising even militarily insignifcant countries like ly unrealistic, as the emergence of China shows. Joint Sea-2016 naval drill, hosted by China. moved to the Russian border, permanently:” Te Montenegro (some 3,000 soldiers), to join Nato. But in the American psyche the USSR is gone, Deputy minister of Defence, Anatoly Antonov Russians have been doing a lot of snap exercises “Russia has not accepted the hand of part- and any attempt to recreate it, under any guise, has declared: “Military cooperation between the at the border, with lots of troops – extraordinari- nership “says Nato Commander, General Philip is just a provocation. And while China has not yet two countries is highly diverse, and has improved ly provocative behaviour”. Germany is to provide Bredlove, “ but has chosen a path of belligerence”. had a direct clash with the United States, Crimea signifcantly over the last three years. A tighter one battalion. Well, it is signifcant that an impressive 80 per- and Ukraine were a slap on the hand… Now, seen interaction between the military departments For a long time, the ofcial UD line in military cent of the Russian population shares Putin’s from outside the western world, as many ana- corresponds to national interests, and we expect circles was to see in Russia a regime intent on paranoia, and does not see the “hand of partner- lysts have pointed out from Latin America and this interaction to increase”. aggression, after the annexation of Crimea, and ship”. When Putin annexed Crimea and invaded Asia, this situation does not make much sense. Tis should really lead Europeans to pause and the intervention in Ukraine. When General Ray Ukraine, his popularity increased at home dra- Let us take the sanctions. Tey have cost over refect. Is it in the interest of Europe to keep Odierno retired as Chief of Staf, he declared, matically. Also because Crimea was always part US$100 billion in lost exports to Russia. pushing Russia into the hands of China? Or sug- “Russia is the greatest threat to the United States of Russia, until Nikita Khrushchev donated it to But this fgure hides a diference: the US ex- gest a European initiative – over US priorities, is of America”. His predecessor, General Joseph Ukraine, in a symbolic move in 1954. Te 65 per- ports to Russia dropped by 3.5 percent, while for it not time to search for a settlement with Rus- Dunford, was more specifc. He thought the then cent of Crimeans were Russian speakers, as those Europe 13 percent, especially from the fragile Eu- sia, that would include the Ukraine, Syria, and an USSR was a bigger threat than ISIS. Odierno said living in the Eastern part of Ukraine, a country ropean agricultural sector (which fell by 43 per- engagement to end “deterrence”, for an agreed that as a result, he saw threats to Estonia, Latvia, that was created by joining western Crimea, cent). Imports from Russia in Europe fell by 13.5 status quo, which would reopen trade and coop- Lithuania and Ukraine. which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Em- percent. According to the European Commission, eration, and satisfy the frustrated ego of Russian It is useful to remember that Putin began his pire, with eastern Ukraine, which was part of the the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) is going citizens? It should be recognized that even be- tenure by continuing Boris Yeltsin’s line of total Russian empire. Putin very adroitly said that his to drop by 0.3 percent in 2014 and 0.4 percent tween allies like the EU and US sometimes there cooperation with the United States. As George W. task was to protect “Russian citizens, wherever in 2015 due to the sanctions. But that is a quite are diferent priorities, without being traitors… Bush famously said: “I have seen inside Vladimir they live”, and this struck a chord with Russian a considerable draw, considering that European Maybe the American elections will change all the Putin eyes, and fnally we have a strong ally for people. growth is expected to be just 1.5 as an average, rules of this game. US interests”. But then Bush took a number of It should be made clear that there are no ex- with countries, like Italy, barely over one percent. actions without consultation that convinced the cuses in legal terms for Putin’s actions. But in Meanwhile a new trend is developing, seeming- 3PCFSUP
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"THE GODDESS OF THE LAKE: Rome, drives this wide-ranging dis- ORIGINS OF A MYTH AND THE cussion of what remains one of the ROMAN SHIPS OF NEMI, 2016" most beautiful and mysterious places By Margret Stenhouse in the Roman Campagna. Known to- Press Time Editions, day for its year-round crop of tiny wild 251 pages, €15 strawberries (a gift of the crater’s spe- cial microclimate), Nemi in antiquity was the site of a temple dedicated to Diana, the goddess of wild places and wild animals. Te dense forest that covered the crater’s slopes eventually parted to disclose a deep, clear crater lake, the ‘mirror of Diana,’ swarming (at least until recently) with the tiny fsh called lattarini. Tis wilderness, at least according to an ancient leg- end recorded by the ancient writers Strabo, Pausanias, and Servius, was guarded by a priest-king who obtained By Ingrid Rowland his position by a strange, brutal ritual. ROME - Te former Italy corre- If a runaway slave could fnd a partic- spondent for the Glasgow Herald, ular heavily guarded tree in the center Margaret Stenhouse has lived in of Diana’s sacred grove and break of the Castelli Romani for many years. one of its boughs, he earned the right Her love for the little volcanic cra- to challenge the reigning king to mor- ter of Nemi, 30 kilometers south of tal combat.

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If the slave slew the king, he suc- in the 1930’s. Stenhouse plausibly the primeval forest ringing the lake, ceeded to the kingship. Otherwise, connects the ships with the imported the lattarini disappeared with the he joined the long list of human be- Egyptian cult of Isis, immensely pop- disturbance of their environment, ings sacrifced to Diana. ular in ancient Rome, and details the and the level of the lake itself never In providing a contemporary con- way they might have functioned on recovered. All this for an archaeo- text for this remote temple and its such a tiny, enclosed body of water. logical fnd lost, by another act of mysterious rites, Stenhouse weaves Te most shocking part of her sto- human folly, within 10 years of its together Nemi’s geological history, ry, surprisingly, is not the tale of how discovery. recent archaeological excavations, an- the ships, carefully restored and dis- Te Goddess of the Lake is a lovely thropological analysis, and history of played in an innovative museum spe- guide to a singularly beautiful place, the Grand Tour to show how the nine- cifcally designed around them, were but it is also a sobering study of hu- teenth-century Scots writer Sir James destroyed by fre at the very end of man preconceptions. George Frazer turned the bare bones the Second World War (probably by of the ancient legend of Nemi’s sacred retreating Nazis, but this is not ab- grove into his magisterial study of solutely certain). Far worse than this religion, Te Golden Bough (frst pub- tragic act of destruction, she seems to lished in 1890). Te layers of Nemi’s argue implicitly, if not explicitly, was history are as deep as the volcanic the environmental damage that oc- fumaroles that created this evocative curred as a result of the efort to raise landscape several hundred thousand the ships in the frst place. years ago, and she describes them Te only way the vessels could be with irresistible persuasive power. retrieved successfully (and even then Te second part of the book is de- the success was partial) was by lower- voted to two ancient Roman ships ing the level of the lake. A remarkable constructed by the emperor Caligula feat of engineering, the drainage of in the frst century A.D., sunk be- Lake Nemi brought unforeseen con- neath the waters of the lake in antiq- sequences that were nothing short of Gaius Caesar Caligula uity, and fnally brought onto dry land disastrous: subsiding soil destroyed Margaret Stenhouse 5FOOJT
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"AD IN AD OUT: COLLECTED cuit full time. He writes fction and easy but by making it as demanding cials have convenient amnesia about his way into a semi-professional TENNIS ARTICLES OF MICHAEL non-fction books as well as other and difcult as it actually is’. them. ‘Pro-tennis’ Mewshaw fnds, tournament in Spain where, brief- MEWSHAW 1982-2015" kinds of journalism which means he He is particularly perceptive about ‘has a notoriously short attention ly, it seemed he would win his frst By Michael Mewshaw does not have to keep on the right women players such as the Williams span and a long-standing noncha- match, of his experience as a learn- Unbridled Books, 280 pages side of those who run the profes- sisters, Martina Navratilova, Stef lance about breaking the rules it has er at Roy Emerson’s tennis camp, $US 9.99 or Kindle US$ 6.61 sional tennis circuits - or should that Graf, Monica Seles, Gabriella Saba- written for itself.’ and of his match in London with be circuses. tini and those who burnt out early He captures the atmosphere of the Princess Fatima, sister of the Shah As a result his tennis writing has an such as Tracy Austin and Andrea Roland Garros, Wimbledon, Rome of Persia. She arrived in a limousine unusually sharp edge as can be seen Jaeger. and Monte Carlo tournaments and accompanied by two bodyguards in this collection of his articles from He takes the reader into the circuit tackles issues such as the maddening who told Mewshaw "the Princess 1982-2015. Tey include memorable backstage where the grinding rou- waste of time through innovations never loses." profles of tennis stars such as Bjorn tine of travel and hours of practice such as bathroom breaks, lengthy He did not get the point and she Borg, a hologram of an ‘uninterest- takes a heavy toll. Te grubby details court-side physio treatment and the rarely moved to the ball but then ing’ man who had extraordinary emerge: the greed, the drugs, the sex- toweling of faces after every point. the bodyguards made the message skills but seemed to have sacrifced ual abuse of underage females, the He pinpoints the abuse of various clearer, "Te princess must never his humanity to success. gambling, the match-fxing. Tese kinds which occur in many tennis lose." Mewshaw made great eforts Mewshaw corrects David Foster reports have irked many tennis of- academies and asks whether national to get the ball to her so she could By Desmond O’Grady Wallace’s exaltation of Roger Federer fcials. Mewshaw describes himself tennis schools produce champions or hit winners and he could survive at the expense of Rafaele Nadal as a as the game’s Ancient Mariner with only competent but boring players. to write this sparkling book which ROME - Unlike many other writers mere ‘martial’ journeyman: ‘…Nadal an albatross around his neck but, if Ad In Ad Out is a serious look at ends with him explaining why, de- on tennis, Michael Mewshaw is not has his own supernal gifts and wins he won’t let any of us forget the de- tennis enlivened by humour as in spite the distortions of the pro cir- locked into the professional cir- not by making his game seem to look tails of misdeeds, many tennis of- the account of Mewshaw conning cuit, he loves tennis. 20 June 2016 $VMUVSF [email protected] www.italianinsider.it

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5&5-&: of immigration in today’s world” and lighted that the Commune di Roma captures the helpless position of asy- agreed to host this important project ROME – Irish artist, Michelle Rogers, lum-seekers who are pushed out of as she believes that “a church is the displayed her painting Lampedusa in their homelands by confict yet are perfect location to celebrate the dig- Rome’s Santa Rita Church for fve days treated with suspicion and hostility in nity of people who fnd themselves on in June, in acknowledgement of World Europe. the outside of accepted society”. Refugee Day. Te specifc tribute to the “courage Te artist, who was born and raised Lampedusa is an evocation of the and humanity” of those who perished on the border between Northern and 2013 shipwreck tragedy that occurred of the coast of Lampedusa, Rogers’ Southern Ireland at the height of the 50 miles south of the Italian island work recalls Gericault’s masterpiece, Troubles, has long been associated where it is believed that more than Raft of the Medusa, a stark recogni- with the plights of refugees and the 260 migrant’s lives were claimed by tion of the fact that despite modern topic of migration. In 1993 she was the sea. Stories like this, that report progression, a lack of fundamental selected by Amnesty International to the capsizing of boats hugely overload- humanity means that such tragic epi- go to Bosnia, a trip that subsequent- ed with desperate refugees feeing a sodes still take place. ly inspired a series of paintings about crisis-zone, are becoming all too fre- Given the “immense history of im- the “darkest side of human nature.” quent on the dangerous seas between migrations” both of Italians and the She travelled to Rome in 1998 to study Africa and the coasts of Europe. Rog- Irish, Michelle Rogers is personally Caravaggio and has lived between ers’ painting refects the “grim reality very moved by this topic and was de- Rome and New York since then.

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5&5-&: Te bridge, which stretches 1.86 the necessity of no mark of the con- with an order for new trains, extended ity provided by the project, putting the miles in length, joins the shore-town struction’s presence being left on the train timetables and the re-mapping of area more prominently on the map. ISEO – Te renowned Bulgarian-born Sulzano, with Monte Isola (respec- chosen site, following the project’s de- ferry-routes in order to cope with the Te Floating Piers project, which land-artist, Christo, oversaw the fnal tively famed for being the largest construction. Te Floating Piers pro- increased infux of people to the fairly is “as much a feat of engineering as a construction pieces of his project “Te lake-island of Europe) and the smaller ject is no diferent, being a temporary remote lake. Worthwhile precautions work of art” will mark the Christo’s Floating Piers” being slotted into place neighbour island of San Paolo. Te exhibition, lasting only 16 days, from given the number of ferry bookings to return to Italy as host country for his in the second week of June. Te mo- spectacular snake-like construction, June 18 to July 03. Sulzano already made, which number reputed creations, after a lapse more bile bridge that has been constructed which measures 16 metres wide, and Te fnal bridge-construction on over 53 thousand, a local ofcial re- than 40 years. Te striking appearance on the water of Lake Iseo, is expected is fxed to the bed of the lake by a se- Lake Iseo will be free to all those wish- ports. Te local authorities and tourist and enormity of this project is un- to draw crowds of up to half a million, ries of sea-anchors, will be covered in ing to walk on it; the brow-raising cost associations of the area are expecting questionable, what remains to be seen local authorities report. Saturday June a shimmering yellow fabric, that the of 15 million euros being completely f- an increased tourist footfall following is whether the waters remain calm 18 was set to mark the opening of this artist assures will take on a golden hue nanced by the artist and it will be open the event, given the excellent public- enough for the miracle to be realised. foating installation that has, for the when in place and exposed to the sun. 24 hours a day (weather permitting), past four years, been an on-going pro- Te American artist, who has pro- manned by lifeguards and volunteers ject of Christo Vladimirov Yavachev, duced celebrated works of land art around the clock. Te background most famed for his “packaging pro- around the world, crafts his creations organisation to facilitate this project jects”, one of which was the Reichstag with very particular specifcations, that has been actively in motion since in Berlin. such as their temporary nature and November 2014, has been enormous,

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