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Welcome to Nollywood and This is Nollywood
Two recent films will help everyone interested to get information and some insight into the phenomenon of ‘Nollywood’ – the nigerian video feature film industry – a not so recent, but increasingly developing cinema of its own standards. The 2006 production This is Nollywood by Franco Sacchi describes itself as a documentary film that captures ...
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The Metro
Magdy El Shafee’s The Metro, a just recently in Egypt published graphic novel was confiscated by the authorities last week a few months after its publication.
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The Living Theater showing The Brig
These days The Living Theater started it’s 2008 tour with a new production of ‘The Brig’ by Kenneth Brown. The piece was first presented at The Living Theater at 14th St. and Sixth Avenue in 1963, but has gained new actuality not only by the remembrance of 40 years since 1968, but by hitting the ...
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SOP – aka – standing operating procedure
So there is two subjects which can be connected with this acronym – SOP: First there is the leaked document ‘Standard Operating Procedure’, which has been published by Wikileaks last winter …December 4, 2007, New York – The manual detailing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Guantánamo’s Camp Delta in 2004 was leaked to today by ...
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some insight – No Forbidden Zone in Reading?
NEW LEFT REVIEW publishes in its recent issue a longer essay by Zhang Yongle on the history of the important and influential intellectual Chinese magazine Dushu. Reason for the review is delivered by the current (July 2007) publication of a six-volume Chinese edition featuring the most important texts from 1996 to 2005, a time in ...
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Tibet – suggestions by Some Chinese Intellectuals
Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation by Some Chinese Intellectuals Editor’s Note: On March 12, a group of Chinese intellectuals including prominent dissidents, lawyers, rights activitise and writers circulated a petition supporting calls for an independent investigation in Tibet by the United Nation, and urging the government to reconsider its policies in Tibet, ...
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MITopencourseware
MIT still offers on their opencourseware website free access and download to some of their courses’ material – including syllabus, readings and assignments. The material is free accessible and has permission to be reused and modified while giving credit to the source. It is understood that it cannot be used for commercial use .. etc…, ...
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What are you doing?
I guess it is really time to ask – as to find out where time is vanishing to … Interestingly that became not only a personal question, but a very common one, which fills enire websites – so called micro-blogging services like twitter, jaiku and others. A lot of extending applications and some as nice ...
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In the Valley of Elah
Finally I got curious enough to take a look at the film, – In the Valley of Elah -which here in Germany gets fairly good critics, but is said to have bumped in US and UK. First of all .. it is a film definitly worth seeing – not at least due to his main ...