Australians are clearly begging for new faces on their local screens and earnestly pleading that these faces resemble the diversity Australia prides herself on. Or at least this is what both my […]
Legally Brown and the burden of representation
Why I love Mashrou’ Leila
My love for Mashrou’ Leila grows every day. Their third new album Raasuk has got me buzzing – I can’t stop listening, I can’t stop loving. I’m savouring every lyric, every strum, […]
Orphaned in a broken city
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 […]
A World Not Ours: Forgotten Palestinians
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 […]
A battle to sit through
The “Battle of the Camel” was an unforgettable day for Egyptians. After the Battle, the 2012 Cannes film entry based on those events, is also unforgettable, but for the wrong reasons. Set […]
