Search Results for: Stian Overdahl

ECONOMICS, POLITICS

Q&A | The Qatar blockade explained, by Stian Overdahl

On June 5, Saudi Arabia and the UAE led several of their Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) allies in implementing a trade and travel blockade against Qatar. They claimed the small country, also a member of the bloc, was funding terror groups in the region and encouraging political instability through that and other means. Stian Overdahl, who writes … Continue reading Q&A | The Qatar blockade explained, by Stian Overdahl →

ARTS, ECONOMICS

Stian Overdahl on White Fungus, & creating from the margins

Downtown Taichung City. It is early evening and a bellman stands outside my hotel, wearing his uniform like a peacock. It’s the kind of uniform you find only at hotels that haven’t been updated since the 1970s: classic red and blue bordered with gold trim. But it has nothing on the colourful lights that flash along the … Continue reading Stian Overdahl on White Fungus, & creating from the margins →