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Read de Beauvoir, don’t put it down ..
... ends today’s essay by Barbara Vinken in the taz, and I guess she makes a still actual point here. ‘faces’ of Beauvoir from Simonedebeauvoir.kit.netNot only is it good to recapitulate how women had to fight (like for these nowadays ‘common’ rights like voting, access to universities, .. etc) ... but also to learn which ...
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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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let’s get feminist: recalling Simone de Beauvoir, 1908
Feminist Simone de Beauvoir, the influential french intellectual and author will have her 100th birthday this week. Simone de Beauvoir is best known for The Second Sex, her scandalous 1949 account of what it meant to be female – regarded as the founding text for the modern women’s movement. She met Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris ...
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various modes of ‘Nouvelle Vague’
.. a nice discovery is the music and also the below linked video clip of the band ‘Nouvelle Vague’ (website), which draws some very literal connection ties to the origin and subject of their band name … Dance With Me – Nouvelle Vague from their recent album ‘Band à part’ (myspacetv link) .. and here ...
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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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highly recommended: Persepolis, the movie
Persepolis, the animation film after the books by Marjane Satrapi (see earlier post), starts to be around, and after seeing it myself I just recommend to go and see yourself …. YouTube link … and more here .. and to leave no more words, but just agreeing on this salon review.. People who have no ...
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p2p microfinance
.. what an excellent idea! kiva.org works on the basis of a free loan by a private lender to the very poor, who plan or have some business to develop, but would almost have no chance to lend from a normal bank. The website is personalizing the contact between the lender and the entrepreneur through ...
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The Persian Revolution
An interesting theater piece – entitled The Persian Revolution – by Mehrdad Seyf is currently travelling the UK described as a surreal, comic and disturbing piece of theatre inspired by the events of the 1906 Constitutional Revolution in Iran. The piece ia already Seyf’s fith production and his work is generally described as being influenced ...
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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 ...