Journalist Clare Hammond interviews participants at this year's festival of literature and thought, Books, Borders & Bikes, including controversial historian David Starkey, Palestinian surgeon Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, and war correspondent Marie Colvin.
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Field Culture
Monday, 1 August 2011
Galleries and outings, by Field Culture.
Friday, 9 September 2011
Mark Muller Stuart uses the historical weight of his Scottish home to boost cross-cultural understanding
Friday, 29 July 2011
International mediator Mark Muller Stuart QC and human rights lawyer Jason McCue are spreading the rule of law in Libya and beyond, explored David Robinson
Monday, 25 July 2011
Book lovers should check out Traquair's impressive festival
Friday, 8 July 2011
Gazan surgeon to join festival of ideas at Traquair House this August.
Thursday, 11 August 2011
This year's Books, Borders & Bikes, at Traquair House, has a star-studded line-up, including David Starkey and Mariella Frostrup.
Sunday, 31 July 2011
There were two men in the back of the hired car as it crossed the border into rebel-held Libya in at the end of March. Both lawyers, both mavericks, and both taking a risk.
One of them was Jason McCue, a solicitor married to Mariella Frostrup. Two years ago he won a landmark ruling after a nine-year campaign to get justice for the relatives of the 29 people killed by the bomb planted by the Real IRA in Omagh in 1998. Going into rebel Libya three weeks after an SAS platoon had been arrested for trying to do the same thing was his idea.
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Borders audiences, it transpired, were quite prepared to find out more about Zimbabwean culture, Palestinian landscape and identity, or what it's like to spend ten years in a Turkish jail for daring to speak Kurdish. Nearly all the events in the tent were packed out, and those that weren't were 90 per cent full. Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, Do We Look Like Refugees?, one of three plays on the Fringe backed by Muller's Beyond Borders organisation, won a Scotsman Fringe First and has gone on to a successful run at London's Riverside Studios. So this year his plans are even more ambitious. In the middle weekend of the Edinburgh Book Festival he has put together a programme so good that it even stands comparison with Edinburgh's own.
Eildon Tree Magazine
Saturday, 14 August 2010
This was a memorable two days for the many who attended. They came from the Borders and Lothian but many from much further away, from small nations, literally from the four corners of the world. The atmosphere was inclusive and welcoming, all who attended felt able to contribute, mutual dialogue began, creative interfaces were readily achieved and we saw the hoped for signs in this first Festival in our own region, that the aspirations of Beyond Borders might well begin to be realised.
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Published: 9 Sep 2011
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by Clare Hammond Published: 5 Sep 2011
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Published: 11 Aug 2011
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