I wanted to be Britney Spears when I was thirteen years old. I couldn’t really dance or hold a tune to save my life but, really, neither could she, and her crop […]
On not being Mahmoud Darwish: The challenge for Arab-Australian artists
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Review: The Blue Between Sky and Water
Amal Awad reviews Susan Abulhawa’s moving new novel, ‘The Blue Between Sky and Water’. There is danger in thinking that a single story tells the lives of many. Perhaps more dangerous is […]
Asylum seeker children did not choose to come here
As Refugee Week draws to a close, Amina Youssef writes about the need to remove asylum seeker children from immigration detention … War and conflict are always sad. They result in the destruction […]
Only the Dead raises an ethical conundrum
Widyan Fares reviews Australian documentary ‘Only the Dead’, which screened at the Sydney Film Festival last week. Set in the dusty and ragged terrain of war torn Iraq, Only the Dead incorporates […]
Riz: representing Western Sydney
Nour Haydar talks to Australian directors Guido Gonzalez and S.Shakhidharan at the Sydney Film Festival red carpet about their feature film, Riz, which tells a multicultural story to which we can all relate… Filmmakers […]
