Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
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Geopolitics and the Emotions – Dominique Moïsi
30 Jun 2017Dominique Moïsi’ s 2009 The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World, is…
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Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert
19 Jul 2016Aimless 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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The Toll Booth — Unsettled Desperation in Turkey
05 Feb 2016The Toll Booth (2014), more accurately, the” toll taker,” has a nice play on words in it, at least in…
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Halfaouine: Boy of The Terraces –Coming of Age in Tunis, 1990
12 Jan 2016Every once in a while the unexpected out does itself. In Halfouine, Ferid Boughedir’s small 1990 movie from Tunis not…
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Terror: The Terrible Numbers
16 Nov 2015The attacks in Paris are most recently on our minds, and for many of us, more heavily there than attacks…
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Refugees Today and Yesterday
19 Sep 2015This started out as a post about two movies — about refugees– but talking about movies before actualities seemed just…
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1913: Seeds of Conflict in Palestine
10 Aug 20151913: Seeds of Conflict, a 2014 PBS distributed documentary by Ben Loeterman, is a fine, short introduction to the little…
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Lawrence In Arabia — the Southern Reaches of WW I
20 Nov 2014As World War I came to its bloody close in the fall of 1918 the British public had to be…
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Why We Fight: Unmaking the Myth
03 Jun 2013Eugene Jareck’s 2005 documentary, Why We Fight, available at Netflix, is still a relevant film to watch, even though the motivating…
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Cities Of Salt: Wadi No More
24 Jul 2012Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does…
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Turkey: The Islands
07 May 2012It’s raining on the Sea of Marmara. It’s raining and cold. The warm cocoon of the ferry boat, on…
