Shahd Al-Janabi goes behind-the-scenes at the Sydney Film Festival and talks to filmmaker Desiree Akhavan about her feature film, Appropriate Behaviour. If a push-and-pull of cultures could be exasperated by a push-and-pull of sexuality […]
There is nothing normal in Palestine. And there is nothing normal about the lives of people in Palestine. Normality is only a dream, a hope, and a fantasy. This Palestinian reality is painfully […]
Dear Mr Hoffman, I woke up on Monday morning to the news that you had passed away due to a drug overdose in New York. There have even been reports to suggest […]
No one is spared in war. Thirty-three years of political mistakes made in Iraq has today resulted in three million orphans. Atia and Mohamed Al-Daradji’s haunting documentary, In My Mother’s Arms, profiles Iraq’s orphan […]
Italian, Brazilian and German flags fly over Ain el Hilweh, a crowded Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. They look out of place among Yassir Arafat’s face on small billboards and slogans […]
