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Syria Speaks
A Syrian graffiti artist-activist's tale of living through bombings, gunshots and displacement
3 min |
January 11, 2025
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The Burdened
Yemen, once a beautiful land identified with the Queen of Sheba, is now one of the worst ongoing humanitarian disasters of modern times
6 min |
January 11, 2025
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Sculpting In Time
Documentaries such as Intercepted and Songs of Slow Burning Earth grapple with the Russian occupation beyond displays of desolation
4 min |
January 11, 2025
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The Story Won't Die
Is Israel's triumphalism over its land grab in Syria realistic? The hard reality is-Israel now has Al-Qaeda as a next-door neighbour
10+ min |
January 11, 2025
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Against the Loveless World
In times of war, love exists as a profound act of defiance
6 min |
January 11, 2025
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Soul of My Soul
What does it mean to continue to create art during a genocide?
9 min |
January 11, 2025
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in Dancing the Glory of Monsters
By humanising the stories of those affected by war, poverty and displacement, Buuma hopes to foster empathy and inspire action
2 min |
January 11, 2025
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All the President's Men
Co-author of All The President's Men and one of the two Washington Post journalists (the other was Carl Berntstein) who broke the Watergate scandal that brought down the President Richard Nixon administration in the United States in 1974, Bob Woodward's recent book War was on top of The New York Times Bestseller list, even above John Grisham.
3 min |
January 11, 2025
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Last Witnesses
There will be moments when the light will be cut off, but writing and the dissemination of what is written need to continue
8 min |
January 11, 2025
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A land of Permanent Goodbyes
\"Because what survivor hasn't had her struggle made spectacle? Don't talk about the motherland unless you know that being from Africa means waking up an afterthought in this country.
6 min |
January 11, 2025
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Exhausted on the Cross
\"As in Gaza, where every corpse drags a hand from the rubble to beckon to God, everything there points to awar that is over and done with.\"
3 min |
January 11, 2025
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My Memory is Full of ghosts
The Syrian war is a testament to the people's resilience in the face of extraordinary challenges, underscoring a failure of global responsibility
6 min |
January 11, 2025
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Bombs Over Burma
A 'thought revolution' is unfolding in Myanmar after a century of war
7 min |
January 11, 2025
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Trees for the Absentees
While stories of Syrian refugees confront the depths of human cruelty, they also show the resilience of humanity
5 min |
January 11, 2025
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Five Broken Cameras
Films showcase how Israel is not only destroying Gaza, but also its own soul
6 min |
January 11, 2025
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Heart of Darkness
What happened to Africa over the years can be analysed through the interlocking power struggles between various caste-like social formations in African societies.
9 min |
January 11, 2025
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Heaven's Edge
Memories of a journey across Sri Lanka in the summer of 1988 when the island nation was wracked by violence
8 min |
January 11, 2025
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The Thin Red Line
Wars are about to get more vicious as the concept of 'human' is becoming narrower
6 min |
January 11, 2025
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Anaesthesia
Valentina Abenavoli's book Anaesthesia is a thoughtful recontextualisation of images of war and terror
3 min |
January 11, 2025
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All the President's Men
AT the White House, Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer were in overdrive. The key piece of the intelligence assessment was the 50 percent chance Russia would use a tactical nuclear weapon.
3 min |
January 11, 2025
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Fireworks Alab Nariya
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's last gesture of defiance has made him an iconic figure
3 min |
January 11, 2025
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The Aftermath of War
Peace appears to be a mere interlude, war, the default condition of human beings
7 min |
January 11, 2025
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Human Acts
Death and destruction in Korea are felt at the individual, family and national levels but at the international level, it has become only a statistical addition to the list of millions dying each year.
9 min |
January 11, 2025
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Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's The Vietnam War released in 2017, after being in production for almost a decade. The result was one of the most comprehensive and exhausting pieces of war films ever made.
9 min |
January 11, 2025
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The Face of War
There is nothing but ugliness in war
8 min |
January 11, 2025
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The Unwomanly Face of War
The struggle for women's rights is currently caught in the crossfires of wars
6 min |
January 11, 2025
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The Place at the End of the World
War correspondent Janine di Giovanni has covered almost every major armed conflict in the world since the 1990s.
4 min |
January 11, 2025
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Competitive colonialism, nationalist, revolutionary and ethnic aspirations, rogue rulers and industrial and criminal interests created an unbroken chain of wars, killing, maiming and displacing millions
8 min |
January 11, 2025
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The Zone of Interest
Current world history has disconfirmed liberal post-Cold War visions. Interstate wars and furious mass violence are back, and we have entered a new perilous era of competition between “great powers”
6 min |
January 11, 2025
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The House of the Spirits
Two authors across time zones-Naveen Kishore, founder of the independent Indian publishing house Seagull Books, and Palestinian poet and author Ghassan Zaqtan-write to each other about the human cost of war
5 min |