Nicholas Blincoe

2 articles

Buried Treasures

The four small rooms that hold the Saloua Raouda Choucair retrospective at the Tate Modern truly offer the most surprising and enjoyable experience available in London this summer. Choucair was born in 1916 and continues to work in her ninety-seventh year, although ill health prevented her from trav

Who Was Margaret Thatcher?

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—I was a child when Margaret Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party. She was fifty. Looking at the photographs now, she looks younger than I expected—and this is not merely an effect of me growing older. It is all the fault of her clothes; they belong to a differ