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The Minoprio Foundation and the Politecnico di Milano are offering a Masters program in garden and landscape planning and conservation. The 1500 hour program – to be held at the Minoprio Foundation headquarters in Vertemate con Minoprio from April 2, 2014 through the...

“There’s a crack that has been made in the glass ceiling. And I’m hoping it will be made into a door,” Jabarti told Al Arabiya News, commenting on her appointment as Editor-in-Chief of one of two English-language dailies, the Jeddah-based Saudi Gazette. Jabarti was...

A panorama of current trends in Islam, by Francesca Bruni.   The trend described by Vali Nasr, the well-known Iranian born essayist and scholar of Islamic society, in his book “The Shia Revival” (or the other Islam) released in 2006, increasingly seems to take...

GCC sovereign funds encourage internationalization, the time come for Italy to truly start ‘thinking global’.

Reading some passages from “Cerimoniale”, by Francesca Bruni.     The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano wrote “Il cerimoniale per i missionari in Giappone” (Ceremonial for missionaries in Japan) as a ‘guide’. Although written in the second half of the sixteenth...

Paolo Ghirelli is the Chairman and CEO of Bonatti S.p.A. and the main player in Bonatti Group’s impressive growth. Having worked at energy giants ENI and SNAM, Ghirelli has been numbered among the pioneers in the Italian plant-engineering sector since 1975. We...

The evening call of the muezzin The deepest night, pierced by asymmetrical patterns of light and shadow that filter through the latticework of the walls’ Mashrabiya. A night of half-sleep that accepts without resistance the electronic chant of the Muezzin, broadcast...

An article dedicated to Milan on the Qatar Financial Center Authority’s journal 

There are so many investment opportunities, but they have to be discovered on site, as one of the emerging investors on the new Emirate financial scene suggests. Adel Al Hosani is one of the forty most prominent players in the Emirates’ new world of finance. A power...

The Italian branch of the Aspen Institute together with Milan’s IULM University have released new research indicating that small museums have survived and thrived by forming networks and sharing resources such as communications, websites, and social networks. As...

The UniCredit Towers are the pinnacles of the Italian Curtain Wall