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  • Geopolitics and the Emotions – Dominique Moïsi

    30 Jun 2017

    Dominique 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 2016

    Aimless 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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  • Tigers on the Tenth Day — Fabled Syria

    18 Feb 2016

    Zakaria Tamer (b 1931 in Damascus) has been in exile from his native Syria in England since the early 1980s where…

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  • The Toll Booth — Unsettled Desperation in Turkey

    05 Feb 2016

    The 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 2016

    Every 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 2015

    The 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 2015

    This 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 2015

    1913: 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 2014

    As 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 2013

    Eugene 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 2012

    Cities 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 2012

      It’s raining on the Sea of Marmara.  It’s raining and cold.  The warm cocoon of the ferry boat, on…

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