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May 29, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Stefan Buchen |Amro Ali |Ella Joyner |Shady Lewis Botros
Arrest warrants for Netanyahu and the Hamas leadership? · 29.05.2024 The request for arrest warrants against Israel's prime minister and defence minister as well as three Hamas leaders is undoubtedly a historic step. For the first time, the head of state of a U.S. ally could stand trial https://qantara.de/en/node/43969 Print "Europe must acknowledge that the United States has global responsibilities that create unique circumstances.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Christian Meier |Matthias Sailer |Mohamed ElBaradei |Shady Lewis Botros
Bowing to Israeli pressure · 21.02.2024 Despite no signs of funding misuse, Germany has terminated a significant proportion of its co-operation with Palestinian civil society. A long-standing dispute between Israel and Germany was one reason for the move.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Mohamed ElBaradei |Amro Ali |Shady Lewis Botros |Daniel Bax
Gaza and a world order in ruins · 29.01.2024 The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has dealt a crushing blow to our multilateral security system and threatens to alienate the entire Arab and Muslim world https://qantara.de/en/node/43379 Print After COVID-19 struck in 2020, creating chaos and misery, I hoped some silver lining would emerge from this global tragedy. For a time, it seemed possible.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
qantara.de | Shady Lewis Botros |René Wildangel |Claudia Mende
Cinema showcase in Morocco · 04.12.2023 Female filmmakers from across the Middle East are increasingly being recognised and celebrated. But the challenges they face are not always what you might expect https://qantara.de/en/node/42994 Print The mood at last week's Marrakesh International Film Festival may have been slightly subdued.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
en.qantara.de | Shady Lewis Botros
Covering a wide range of themes from rape and prostitution to poverty, homosexuality, and religious fanaticism, Fyzal Boulifa's latest film treats its subject matter in a delicate – if disturbing – way. By Shady Lewis Botros In his second feature film, "The Damned Don’t Cry" (El-Mahkour ma ki 'bkish (2022), Moroccan-British director Fyzal Boulifa opts for a title that is a semi-literal translation of the name of a 1950s American film, The Damned Don't Cry.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
en.qantara.de | Shady Lewis Botros
"Iraq's Invisible Beauty" is a documentary film depicting the journey of the late Iraqi photographer Latif al-Ani, who gained international acclaim as one of the pioneers of photography in Iraq and the Middle East. By Shady Lewis Botros
In road movies, places are the focus of the action and the journey is a movement over a distance between stops.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
qantara.de | Shady Lewis Botros |Christina Omlin |Sarah Mersch |Aude Gensbittel
Any film attempting an artistic examination of Tunisia's most recent past always runs the risk of falling prey to the icons of the revolution and stereotypes, even if the events concerned happened more than a decade ago. How, for example, to bring to the screen a figure such as Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation initiated the Arab revolutions? How to represent an entire generation of Bouazizis, who are just as furious as Bouazizi was back then?
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
en.qantara.de | Shady Lewis Botros
Any film attempting an artistic examination of Tunisia's most recent past always runs the risk of falling prey to the icons of the revolution and stereotypes, even if the events concerned happened more than a decade ago. How, for example, to bring to the screen a figure such as Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation initiated the Arab revolutions? How to represent an entire generation of Bouazizis, who are just as furious as Bouazizi was back then?
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Jun 28, 2023 | 
qantara.de | Shady Lewis Botros
There is an absolute past – a closed book with no connection to the present – that is mainly known to us through legends. But other forms of the past also exist. In the complete past, everything that happened is completely known, while the course of the incomplete past – which is usually closer to us in time – rests on contingencies and change. But in the age of identities and extreme media penetration, the boundaries of these past tenses are beginning to blur.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
en.qantara.de | Shady Lewis Botros
There is an absolute past – a closed book with no connection to the present – that is mainly known to us through legends. But other forms of the past also exist. In the complete past, everything that happened is completely known, while the course of the incomplete past – which is usually closer to us in time – rests on contingencies and change. But in the age of identities and extreme media penetration, the boundaries of these past tenses are beginning to blur.
