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Our planet
In the Courier, the future of the Earth has continuously been at the heart of the debate. Check out some of our publications across time and place:
Man against nature (1958)
The Ocean's secrets: New adventures in science (1960)
The new world of the ocean (1986)
Biodiversity: A friend for life (2000)
Man and nature: Living in harmony (2008)
Welcome to the Anthropocene! (2018)
Climate change: The ethical challenges (2019)
Artists and writers
From the start, the Courier has highlighted the work of some of the most influential creators of the past centuries.
Special issue featuring the work of Joan Miró (1978)
'Beyond Babel' by Arthur C. Clarke (1970)
"The action of a man who snatches something from death": A speech by André Malraux (1960)
Interview with Gabriel García Márquez (1991)
Special issue on Picasso (1980)
'The Memory of mankind' by Jorge Luis Borges (1985)
Le Corbusier on art and the home (1994)
'Schooldays in Cairo' by Taha Hussein (1977)
'In praise of mother tongues' by Chingiz Aitmatov (1982)
Interview with Chucho Valdés (2017)
Fighting racial discrimination
From Claude Lévi-Strauss' work to Nelson Mandela's history, the Courier has always provided a powerful platform for debates and discussions on racism.
The Intellectual fraud of racial doctrines (1953)
Answers to racism: the drama that still plagues the world (1971)
Racism: Free Nelson Mandela, brave advocate of the rights of man (1983)
Claude Lévi-Strauss: The view from afar – A selection of Lévi-Strauss' articles (2008)
'Racism does not need racists' by Jorge Majfud (2019)
Portraits of science
Science and mankind: Nobel Prize winners' roundtable (1959)
'Maria Montessori: a vision of mankind transformed' (1964)
Special issue on Galileo Galilei (1964)
Special issue on Marie Curie (1967)
Special issue on Copernicus (1973)
Special issue on Al-Biruni (1974)
Special issue on Einstein (1979)
Special issue on Darwin (1982)
The treasures of Nubia
In 1960 UNESCO launched an international campaign to save the Monuments of Nubia, which ended up lasting twenty years. Dive back into this success story.
Save the treasures of Nubia: UNESCO launches a world appeal (1960)
Abu Simbel: Now or never (1964)
Victory in Nubia (1964)
Victory in Nubia: The greatest archaeological rescue operation of all time (1980)