Film: Lebanon (2010) Director/Screenwriter: Samuel Maoz Cast: Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Ashraf Barhom, Reymonde Amsellem, Michael Moshonov, Zohar Strauss, Yoav Donat, Dudu Tassa ?What is the modern? It’s no longer the primordial model; it’s the clash and the coexistence of two different models at the same moment. The modern says, ?I’m the master of my… Read more »
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?Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.? Albert Camus, The Rebel (Read Part I of this series here.) A communiqué sent out by group Action pour le Changement en Algerie urged a peaceful and unified, but fearlessly uncompromising, demonstration for Saturday, Feb 12. But efforts… Read more »
Stacey Kent is a jazz chanteuse with a large and zealous worldwide cult following. Her understated phrasing and deeply sensitive renderings of standards and original tunes in several languages have won her many accolades and enthusiastic reviews. Stacey began her musical career after completing a Master’s degree in comparative literature. In 2010, after six best-selling… Read more »
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Stacey Kent is an American jazz chanteuse with a large and zealous worldwide cult following. Her meticulous, understated phrasings and deeply sensitive renderings of standards and original tunes have won her many accolades and enthusiastic reviews. She sings in both English and French. Stacey began her musical career after completing a Masters degree in comparative… Read more »
?Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.? Norman O. Brown In 1980, Algerian scholar Mouloud Mammeri was preparing to present his book at a conference on Berber poetry in Tizi Ouzou. The book was a collection of poems he’d gathered, titled Poèmes kabyles… Read more »
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?The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.? Virginia Woolf If Charles Bukowski had taken guitar lessons from Duane Eddy and Jimi Hendrix and then channelled his sullen-joyous world view into recordings?well, he wouldn’t have sounded like this, but his sound might have appealed to… Read more »