June 29, 2020
"Questioning Racism in the India Diaspora: Cultural Perspectives" was a panel convened by the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET)...
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March 1, 2018
Since cinema has entered the Age of Marvel, we have learned that translating the complexity and maturity gained by sixty-year-old comic...
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July 21, 2017
The plight of migrants trying to reach Europe in desperate journeys across land and sea has been described in countless reportage and...
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February 24, 2017
The only prospect more enthralling than a last stand is a Hollywoodized version of it. Zulu (1964) portrayed the 1879 battle at Rourke’s...
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December 11, 2016
The opening shots of Christine Cynn’s Shooting Ourselves encapsulates the jarring visual world of the arms industry. The film begins in a...
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March 7, 2016
Kamal Aljafari remembers when Jaffa was transformed into civil war-torn Beirut. Under the direction of Menachem Golan, the production team...
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January 25, 2016
Today marks five years since the Egyptian people launched the mass movement, galvanized around the occupation of Cairo’s Tahrir Square,...
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October 27, 2015
Beasts of No Nation poses some complicated questions about Hollywood’s treatment of black masculinity. While the movie based on the 2005...