Prof Frances Marie Corner (née Agnew), Warden, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Screen shot of Monalisa Chukwuma’s “Portrait of an Unknown Woman”.

Ms Miranda Baldwin, Headteacher of St. Matthew Academy.

When I got an invite recently from my sister and friend, Ms Monalisa Chukwuma, a Doctoral research student at Goldsmiths, University of London to attend the screening of her great film entitled: Portrait of an Unknown Woman, little did I know that I would be pleasantly surprised to find the ubiquitous presence of young people moving up and down on its campus at Lewisham, London, England, United Kingdom.

On seeing the pervasive presence of the students of St. Matthew Academy, Lewisham, after having been directed by a gentle man to the main building of the university, I became confused and began to ask myself if I was in the right place as that day, the 12^th of June was indeed, my first time of visiting the campus of Goldsmiths, University of London.

JOHN ODEY ADUMA, PUBLISHER, VIGILANCE - THE WORLD'S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE

University Security, Researches and Innovations

Posted On Monday, 27 June 2022 15:51

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By Husam Dughman

If George Orwell were alive today, he would in all likelihood be horrified to discover that he was wrong about his assumption that doublethink existed only in totalitarian societies. Supposedly democratic countries, too, seem to suffer from that strange malaise, something which certain parts of the world such as MENA (the Middle East and North Africa), Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and much of Asia have known for a long time, though not everybody in those regions has heard of Orwell’s neologism. More recently, the Russian-Ukraine conflict has laid bare a shockingly huge amount of doublethink in the words and actions of otherwise sober, sensible, and educated people. One salient example can be observed when numerous people in Western countries talk about the incompetence of the Soviet military machine and its failure to quickly overcome Ukraine, with its much smaller population and far weaker military might, and at the same time, those very people express the fear that Russia is going to take over the West.

Husam Dughman

Viewpoints

Posted On Friday, 24 June 2022 10:11

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