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  • January 22, 2014

    ‘In My Mother’s Arms,’ the story of Iraq’s orphans

    A group of young boys gather around a TV set listening to the presenter as she delivers news of bombings in the Al Sadr neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Images...

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  • January 22, 2014

    Film Review: Roadmap to Apartheid

    As South Africa’s apartheid system neared its end, the regime asked their long-term ally Israel for some advice. How could they boost their image in the West and sell...

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  • January 22, 2014

    5 Broken Cameras: A Palestinian Narrative or a Propaganda Film?

    After its nomination for an Academy Award, the documentary film, “5 Broken Cameras” by Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat, has gained attention amongst Arabs, Muslims and pro-Palestine activists. It is...

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  • January 22, 2014

    Theatre Review: Facts

    On the back wall of a tiny room in West London, a telephone hangs patiently next to the door; to the left is a shelf on which a silver...

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  • January 22, 2014

    Palestinian restaurant in America rejects the temptations of alcohol and dancing

    Zaki Kabob restaurant in the state of New York, the economic capital of the United States, is standing fast in the face of alienation and temptation and yet continues...

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  • January 22, 2014

    Film Review: Occupation 101

    These days there are a number of documentaries and academic books that address the Israel Palestine conflict; many of them, like Occupation 101, reveal how Israeli policy in the...

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  • January 22, 2014

    Uncensored glimpses of reality and humanity in Five Broken Cameras

    Sympathy, apathy and the human urge to live are among the emotions experienced when watching the Academy Award-nominated Palestinian documentary Five Broken Cameras. The film adopts such unadorned realism...

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  • January 22, 2014

    Film Review: When I Saw You

    It’s hard to recreate the 1960s with only a quarter of the budget you intended to shoot on. But that’s exactly what Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir did to film...

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  • January 22, 2014

    Film Review: Gaza Calling

    The Tedious Occupation of Bureaucracy Six years ago Palestinian director Nahed Awwad, her husband and their four-week-old daughter were on the way to Germany from their home in the...

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  • January 22, 2014

    Theatre Review: The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution

    The most disturbing part of Caryl Churchill’s The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution is the relevance its main themes have today. Set in a psychiatric hospital at...

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