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30 November 2009

Film Review: Leçon Siberienne (Siberian Lesson) by Wojciech Staron, ****

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Synopsis Malgorzata et Wojciech décident de quitter Varsovie pour aller vivre à 7000 kilomètres, en Sibérie, à côté du lac Baïkal. Magorza...
27 November 2009

Film review: Carnet d’un combattant kurde, by Stefano Savona, ****

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Synopsis Akif left Germany to join up with the PPK guerrilla fighters. His diary records the doubts, dreams and political discussions that ...
20 November 2009

Film review: Opium, Afghanistan's Other War (2008), by Florence Gavage and Hossein Sadre, *****

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Synopsis Due to prolonged war and internal strife, Afghanistan has been devastated. The justice, health, education, welfare, communications...
18 November 2009

Film Review: Kurdish Yezidis (2009) by Florence Gavage, *****

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Synopsis According to ancient legend, in the beginning God created a white pearl and a bird. He then created seven angels including M...
15 November 2009

Concert: Sacrificium, by Cecilia Bartoli, *****

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Today I went to listen to Cecilia Bartoli at the Brussels Bozar. One of the most powerful voices on the planet. This project is about XVIII ...
14 November 2009

Film review: The Last Assyrians, by Robert Alaux, ****

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For six years Robert Alaux researched and wrote this documentary. It is the first film that tells the complete history of the Assyrian Chal...
13 November 2009

Film review: Quantum of Solace (2008), by Marc Forster, ***

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Synopsis Daniel Craig returns as Ian Fleming's most famous creation in Quantum of Solace , the first film in the James Bond series to ...

Recensione film: Dallo Zolfo al Carbone (2008), di Luca Vullo, *****

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Sinossi La storia e le sofferenze degli emigranti siciliani in Belgio che il giovane regista Luca Vullo ha voluto raccontare in Dallo zol...
12 October 2009

Recensione film: La Besa di Luce (2007), di Nathalie Rossetti e Turi Finocchiaro, ****

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Sinossi Dopo la dittatura comunista di Enver Hoxha, la vendetta è diventata "una forma di giustizia". Luce invece accetta il dia...
03 October 2009

Film review: Afghanistan, Messengers from a Dark Past (2007), by Hossein Sadre and Florence Gavage, *****

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Synopsis Having been ravaged by over twenty-five years of civil war and strife, Afghanistan has today lost nearly all that made up its rich...
22 September 2009

Book review: Maldives, Government and Politics (2002), by Verinder Grover, ****

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Maldivian uninhabited island This is the most complete book by a political scientist I could find anywhere. The authors of t...
18 September 2009

Recensione: Taqiyya, Alla Scoperta dell'Iran, di Alessandro Pellegatta, ****

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Sinossi Nella tradizione islamica taqiyya significa "paura, stare in guardia, circospezione, ambiguità o dissimulazione" e ha ind...
01 August 2009

Book Review: Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qu'ran, by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, ****

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Synopsis Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of hi...

Recensione: Monsieur Ibrahim e i Fiori del Corano, du Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, ****

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Sinossi Il breve intreccio di strade di un popolare quartiere parigino annovera vie che hanno il sapore delle favole: Rue Bleue, Rue de Par...
14 May 2009

Film review: The Children of the Decree, by Florian Iepan and Razvan Georgescu (2004), *****

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Synopsis “Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women,” was the political thinking during the 1960s and 1970s in Romania. In 19...