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  • Ninah’s Dowery

    27 Dec 2015

    Whew! Watching Ninah’s Dowery (2012), a movie from a small Camaroon film crew, directed by the sure-handed Victor Viyuoh I was carried into the…

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  • Making the Crossing: Migrants in the Movies

    14 Oct 2015

    Mediterranea at the Mill Valley Film Festival couldn’t come at a better time.  Though several years in the making, and…

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  • The Dawn of Humanity: Science at Work

    30 Sep 2015

    The find of an extraordinary number of early hominid bones and subsequent naming of a new species — —homo naledi…

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  • The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco

    31 May 2013

    Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in…

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  • Mali: Pain and Poetry

    25 Jan 2013

    Though war and armed assaults in Mali have been much in the news lately good things continue to happen. Here,…

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  • Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti

    06 Jan 2012

    A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters…

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  • Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France

    16 Jun 2011

    Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it–  around the world.  It is absolutely…

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  • The Veil – Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt/U.K.

    25 Apr 2011

    Ahadaf Soueif, is a Cairo born, Egypt and U.K educated, writer, predominantly of fiction. She got major attention with her…

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  • “I Think of You” — Stories from Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt and England

    18 Apr 2011

    Giving birth in a Muslim hospital where a sign in English reads, ‘Under no circumstance you must be alone with…

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  • The Long Way Back by Fuad al-Takarli: A Novel from Iraq

    17 Apr 2011

    The ascension of Saddam Hussein to the peak of Iraqi power began in 1958 when a coup led by Brigadier…

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  • Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih, Sudan

    25 Mar 2011

    I’ve been trying to keep my focus on fiction and film from the North African/Middle Eastern countries where the 2011…

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  • Music: Mali

    21 Nov 2006

    Last week at the Human Rights Watch dinner in Santa Barbara a band of African musicians brought together by the…

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