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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 ...
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Zanan
A move back a bit in time, because I think these news are still relevant and need to be spread. As well many in the west, like myself before some research, might not really be aware what Zanan is or better was – and how sad it is that this magazine, working along the borderline ...
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Documentary: House of Saud
These days I had the luck to see the documentary ‘House of Saud’ by filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri. A BBC/ARTE/PBS/NHK production, which first has been aired in 2004.Saudi Arabia—one of the United States’ most important allies for more than sixty years—is home to vast oil fields and a wealthy, often extravagant, monarchy. Until 9/11, most Americans ...
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di/visions
This weekend House of World Cultures in Berlin will start with Catherine David’s DI/VISIONS project, which focuses on Culture and Politics of the Middle East. The program presents a month long series of talks, discussions and screenings, surely worth to be explored – (>> program):... In the Middle East, the long 20th century was marked ...
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occupation 101
Described as a must to see: ... almost a year ago the film occupation 101 got its first – very positive – reviews (see imbd, my space ) by interested and some occasional movie goers on festivals. The documentation focuses on the palestinian-israeli conflict, and was done as their first film project after a visit ...
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minor instincts / shock doctrine
The recent new book – and accompanying film – of Naomi Klein causes already a lot of discussion. And it is good that there are (semi*) open places like the Guardian mini-site to provide this. Sorrily I haven’t read the book, thus I can’t really decide on some raised detail information, also I can’t really ...
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30 years ago
During the last days there was a lot of commenting on the 30. year recall of the Schleyer kidnapping and thus generally Germany’s past in relation to terrorist/radical activism in the german newspapers. Signandsight.com has put together quite a collection of the articles, and it is worth to read at least those short synopsis’ to ...
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tracing the exchange on level: background visibility
0xdb database did their presentation about a week or two ago here in Berlin, but just now they put out a bigger announcement of their recent stunning development. What does 0xdb stand for?There are different theories about this. Some people have remarked that 0xdb is the hexadecimal notation of the decimal number 219, and that ...
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borders
[first: ... a short note and apology: a major breakdown of my computer kept me on the restoring side instead of posting new stuff … but this will follow here now:] The current issue of LMD (german edition) brings in a short note and images of the last year’s exhibition ‘Frontières’ (french) with by geograph ...