Arabs in WW I
This looks like this will be very interesting, from Al Jazeera: World War One was four years of bitter conflict from…
View Article1913: Seeds of Conflict in Palestine
1913: Seeds of Conflict, a 2014 PBS distributed documentary by Ben Loeterman, is a fine, short introduction to the little…
View ArticleTaxi — A Forbidden Film from Iran
Jaffar Panahi’s Taxi, an entry at the recent Mill Valley Film Festival has made it into at least limited distribution in…
View ArticleHalfaouine: Boy of The Terraces –Coming of Age in Tunis, 1990
Every once in a while the unexpected out does itself. In Halfouine, Ferid Boughedir’s small 1990 movie from Tunis not…
View ArticleEnough! — Algerian Film Maker looks at War
Djamila Sahraoui (b 1950) Algerian born director, now living in France was 41 when the thirteen year civil war erupted in…
View ArticleWomen say: Hands Off! — Three Films of the Changing Conversation in Islam
The long fight for autonomy, independence and freedom against enemies canny and brutal, is one of the most popular subjects…
View ArticleThe Toll Booth — Unsettled Desperation in Turkey
The Toll Booth (2014), more accurately, the” toll taker,” has a nice play on words in it, at least in…
View ArticleKhorma – The Foolish Crier, Tunisia
Stories of fools are likely as old as the telling of stories themselves, second only to those of powerful heroes…
View ArticleThe Secrets — Desire and Emergence in Conservative Israel
Avi Nesher’s 2007 film, The Secrets, is full of them, though not only the secret forbidden love promised by the posters. Neither…
View ArticleTheeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert
Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends. We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable…
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