Mixed Media
Book, Film and Music Reviews
From A to X: A Story in Letters
A heartrending love-story and a searing indictment of authoritarianism in all its forms.
The Rebels' Hour
Lieve Joris's spellbinding account of the recent ill-starred history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Big Blue Ball
Peter Gabriel threw open the doors of his Real World studios in rural England and invited an enormous bunch of musicians – Sinead O’Connor, Marta Sebestyen, Papa Wemba, Guo Yue are just a few of them – to come and jam.
Alexandra
What war does to people’s humanity and how, without trust, touch and intimacy, we’re lost.
The Riddle of Qaf
The Riddle of Qaf is crammed with allusions to classical literature and cod-scientific theories and it makes free (and unapologetic) use of myths and legends.
Hear, O Israel: A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz
17-year-old rabbi’s son – and fledgling composer – Joseph Klein lured one of the greatest names in jazz (Herbie Hancock) to join in performing a jazz prayer ceremony.
Linha de Passe
An outstanding realistic drama that shows these people’s ordinariness, strengths and weaknesses, and never idealizes or diminishes them.
Time and Winds (Bes Vakit)
A beautiful contemplative immersion in the children’s sense of the immensity of time and events. Written and directed by Reha Erdem
Dancing, dying, crawling, crying
Stories of continuity and change in the Polynesian community of Tikopia by Julian Treadaway
In Defense of Lost Causes
Superstar philosopher Slavoj Zizek writes in defence of lost causes
Children of the Revolution
This is a book that highlights how people caught in between places are denied identity, perspective and intimacy.
El Baño del Papa (The Pope’s Toilet)
A film about the Pope’s toilet. Directed by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar Charlone
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The Aid Link
Are we really helping the Third World?
Let us hope
Hope was a key word in the campaign of newly elected US President Barack Obama. Americans and citizens around the world were stirred by Obama’s oratorical prowess and his vision of change. Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano is optimistic.
Pull down St. Paul’s!
British aid agency ActionAid recently put in an application to demolish London’s famed St Paul’s Cathedral.
Funding cuts threaten lives in Kenya
Human skulls and decomposing bodies dug up in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province show signs of torture.
In tents activity
Campaigners take to the canvas to show solidarity
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
City of whispers
Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with Dinyar Godrej.
Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.
I will return...and I will be millions
Are things beginning to look up for the world’s indigenous peoples? Vanessa Baird begins a series of three reports from Bolivia, where the signs look most hopeful – and most precarious.
Lust, caution - hijab
Adventures in the ‘terror’ zone – and how the hijab does not keep you hidden
Israel, Palestine and the Hypocrisies of Power – an interview with Noam Chomsky
Celebrated American intellectual and activist Noam Chomsky provides a devastating insight into what lies behind the Israel-Palestine conflict and some of the obstacles to the viability of a Palestinian state.
The scramble for Africa
Katharine Ainger traces the connections between the Western World’s prosperity and Africa’s misery.
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