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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Imagine Sarajevo

  How do you bring life back to a city that was the subject of the longest siege in modern European History? How do you encourage youths who have been sniped at and bombed to take an interest in art? What happens when you take five students from the richest part of Europe and send them to Sarajevo, a city that has dissappeared from the consciousness of Europe.

  
  
• Sparkle of crimes in their voices - Aziz Chouaki and The Star of Algiers

  Aziz Chouaki was forced by threats to leave his native Algeria. His novel, The Star of Algiers, portrays a society collapsing, with his central character caught between the 'sirens of the North, and the roots of the South'. It's a novel that tells us as much about the urban Islam developing throughout Europe, as it does Algeria's tragic recent history.

  
  
• From the Armalite to the Strawberry Smoothie - 21st Century Ireland, North and South.

  By rights Henry McDonald, born and raised in the Catholic working class district of the Markets in Belfast, should have grown up Republican, Nationalist and Catholic. Instead he grew up an afficionado of punk rock, football, and international politics. McDonald, biographer of Ulster Unionist David Trimble, and the Observer's Ireland Editor, discusses with Three Monkeys Online the alternative narratives of identity in Ireland, and those increasingly outdated ones that dominated the last century.

  
  
• The Image of Christmas - The Nativity Represented in Art

  The richly detailed Christmas nativity story contains far more than is included in the 'authoratitive' versions of the two Gospels that mention Christ's birth. Over centuries, artists have been inspired to depict and embellish this iconic story. Dr. Catherine Lawless presents a short guide to some of the artistic representations of Christmas.

  
  
• The Gringo Trail - Mark Mann in interview

  Before Alex Garland's The Beach, Mark Mann wrote what remains the classic 'backpacking' novel, The Gringo Trail. A tragi-comic account of a trip through South America, blending Culture, Comedy, and Drugs.